return
/ɹɪˈtɝn/ noun A2- The act of returning. · I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
- A return ticket. · Do you want a one-way or a return?
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- An answer. · a return to one’s question
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information. · election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
- Gain or loss from an investment. · It yielded a return of 5%.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return. · Hand in your return within 90 days of the end of the tax year.
- A carriage return character.
Plural returns
From the library
Let us talk of your happy return, my boy.
Gardiner looked at her niece with a smile, but Elizabeth could not return it.
“Yes—yes,” said Caderousse; “but you were right to return as soon as possible, my boy.”
“I never grant favors without some return,” said Oz; “but this much I will promise.
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