Return Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work. |
| 2. | to revert to a former owner: The money I gave him returns to me in the event of his death. |
| 3. | to revert or recur, as in thought, discourse, etc.: He returned to his story. |
| 4. | to make a reply or retort: She returned with a witty sally. |
–verb (used with object) | 5. | to put, bring, take, give, or send back to the original place, position, etc.: to return a book to a shelf; to return a child to her mother; to return the switch to off position. |
| 6. | to send or give back in reciprocation, recompense, or requital: to return evil for good. |
| 7. | to reciprocate, repay, or react to (something sent, given, done, etc.) with something similar: to return the enemy's fire; to return a favor. |
| 8. | Law. | a. | to give to a judge or official (a statement or a writ of actions done). |
| b. | to render (a verdict, decision, etc.). |
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| 9. | to reflect (light, sound, etc.). |
| 10. | to yield (a profit, revenue, etc.), as in return for labor, expenditure, or investment. |
| 11. | to report or announce officially: to return a list of members. |
| 12. | to elect, as to a legislative body: The voters returned him to office by a landslide. |
| 13. | Military. to put (a weapon) back into its holder. |
| 14. | Cards. to respond to (a suit led) by a similar lead: She retur
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ned diamonds. |
| 15. | to turn back or in the reverse direction, as a served ball in tennis. |
| 16. | Chiefly Architecture. to cause to turn or proceed in a different direction from the previous line of direction; reverse: to return a cornice at each end of a façade. |
–noun | 17. | the act or fact of returning as by going or coming back or bringing, sending, or giving back: We should appreciate your return of the book immediately. |
| 18. | a recurrence: the return of the moon each month. |
| 19. | reciprocation, repayment, or requital: profits in return for outlay. |
| 21. | a person or thing that is returned: returns of mill goods. |
| 22. | the gain realized on an exchange of goods. |
| 23. | Often, returns. a yield or profit, as from labor, land, business, or investment: He received a quick return on his money. |
| 24. | Also called tax return. a statement, on an officially prescribed form, of income, deductions, exemptions, etc., and taxes due. |
| 25. | Usually, returns. an official or unofficial report on a count of votes, candidates elected, etc.: election returns. |
| 27. | Architecture. | a. | the continuation of a molding, projection, etc., in a different direction. |
| b. | a side or part that falls away from the front of any straight or flat member or area. |
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| 28. | a tablelike extension att
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ached at a right angle to a desk at typing height, for holding a typewriter, computer, etc. |
| 29. | a key or lever on a typewriter or other business machine that returns the carriage to the extreme right, or the typing element to the extreme left, for the beginning of a new line. |
| 31. | Sports. | a. | the act of returning a ball. |
| b. | the ball that is returned. |
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| 32. | Football. a runback of a kick, intercepted pass, or fumble recovery. |
| 33. | Economics. yield per unit as compared to the cost per unit involved in a specific industrial process. |
| 34. | Law. | a. | the bringing or sending back of various documents, such as a writ, summons, or subpoena, with a brief written report usually endorsed upon it, by a sheriff, to the court from which it issued. |
| b. | a certified document by a great variety of officers, as assessors, collectors, and election officers. |
| c. | the report or certificate endorsed in such documents. |
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| 35. | Cards. a lead that responds to a partner's lead. |
| 36. | Theater. a flat or drapery parallel to the tormentor for masking the offstage area and often completing the downstage part of a set. |
| 37. | returns, | a. | merchandise shipped back to a supplier from a retailer or distributor as unsold or unsalable. |
| b. | merchandise returned to a retailer by a consumer. |
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–adjective | 38. | of or pertaining to a return or returning: a return trip. |
| 39. | sent, given, or done in return: a return shot. |
| 40. | done or occurring again: a return engagement of the opera. |
| 41. | noting a person or thing that is returned or returning to a place: return cargo. |
| 42. | changing in direction; doubling or returning on itself: a return twist in a road. |
| 43. | used for returning, recirculating, etc.: the return road; a return pipe. |
| 44. | (of a game) played in order to provide the loser of an earlier game with the opportunity to win from the same opponent: return match. |
| 45. | adequate, necessary, or provided to enable the return of a mailed package or letter to its sender: return postage guaranteed; return address; return envelope. |
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