The act of returning. Example: I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
A return ticket. Example: Do you want a one-way or a return?
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it. Example: Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
An answer. Example: 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. Example: election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
Gain or loss from an investment. Example: 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. Example: Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
A carriage return character.
The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant). Example: The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer. Example: A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
To come or go back (to a place or person). Example: Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
To go back in thought, narration, or argument. Example: To return to my story [...]
To turn back, retreat.
To turn (something) round.
To place or put back something where it had been. Example: Please return your hands to your lap.
To give something back to its original holder or owner. Example: You should return the library book within one month.
To take back something to a vendor for a refund. Example: If the goods don't work, you can return them.
To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve. Example: The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.
To play a card as a result of another player's lead. Example: If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
To say in reply; to respond. Example: to return an answer; to return thanks; "Do it yourself!" she returned.
To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
To pass (data) back to the calling procedure. Example: This function returns the number of files in the directory.
To retort; to throw back. Example: to return the lie
To report, or bring back and make known. Example: to return the result of an election
(by extension) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Merchandise returned to the retailer, wholesaler or supplier.
A mild, light-coloured kind of tobacco.
The rendering back of a writ to the proper officer.
The return of the soldiers fit for duty.
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