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Meaning return meaning

What does return mean?
Definitions in simple English

return Verb

— When you return something, you give/put it back. He returned the lawnmower back to John. — When you return to something or somewhere, you go/come back to it. He returned to China after his trip to Germany. The main theme of the symphony's first movement returns in the last movement. I've just returned from class, but I'll be leaving again soon. — If a feeling, problem, thought, etc. returns, it comes back. I thought I was better, but the pain in my back has returned. — If you return to an activity, you start it again. — If you return an act, you do the same act to the person who did it first. She turned her eyes towards him and he returned her her look. — If you return a ball in sports, you hit it back to the other player. He was unable to return serves all through the match. — If you return a profit or loss in business, you make it. — If you return something to a particular state, you make it that way again. We need to return the earth to a more healthy state.

return Noun

— Somebody's return is when they come back. They've planned a celebration for my return home. — Something's return is when it is given back. — A return is something that was bought but has to be taken back to the store, usually because it is broken. This store does not allow returns unless the customer has a receipt. — The return of something to a particular state is the change back to that state. — Someone's return to an activity is their restarting of the activity. — The return on money is the amount or percent of profit earned on it. — If you do something in return for something else, you do it to thank or pay back somebody; you make things balanced again. — The return of a feeling, problem, thought, etc. is when it comes back. — Return is a key on a computer keyboard that puts the cursor back at the beginning of a line. — A return is a form that you send to the government telling it about your income, your household, etc. — The returns in an election are the number of votes. — A return is a ticket that takes you where you want to go and back home again.

return

— verb go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before return to your native land the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean — noun (= tax return) document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return — verb (= render) give back render money — verb (= revert) go back to a previous state We reverted to the old rules — noun a coming to or returning home on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party — verb (= hark back) go back to something earlier This harks back to a previous remark of his — verb (= bring back) bring back to the point of departure — noun the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction — noun (= restitution) getting something back again upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing — noun the act of going back to a prior location they set out on their return to the base camp — verb return in kind return a compliment return her love — verb make a return return a kickback — verb be restored Her old vigor returned — verb (= retort) answer back — noun the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property the average return was about 5% — verb (= refund) pay back Please refund me my money — verb (= render, deliver) pass down render a verdict deliver a judgment — verb submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority submit a bill to a legislative body — verb return to a previous position; in mathematics The point returned to the interior of the figure — noun a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player he won the point on a cross-court return — noun (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble — noun a reciprocal group action in return we gave them as good as we got — noun (= reappearance) the act of someone appearing again his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited — noun happening again (especially at regular intervals) the return of spring — noun the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed — verb (= fall, devolve) be inherited by The estate fell to my sister The land returned to the family The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead — verb (= reelect) elect again — verb (= render, yield, give) give or supply The cow brings in 5 liters of milk This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn The estate renders some revenue for the family — noun (= rejoinder) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher

Synonyms return synonyms

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come back go back give back restore turn back send back yield revert repay render turn reply refund go home coming back bring back comeback retreat restoration pay back income turn around take back returning repayment relapse give retort restitution recurrence come home answer tax return reward repeat recovery recompense put back get back requite recur profit going back counter turning back takings submit riposte reverse revenue

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Topics return topics

What do people use return to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

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Physical actions Move something Take somewhere

Return something
Social behavior Religion Practice religion

Salvation
Work and occupation Finance Borrow

Repay debt
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Return
Person Life Die

Corpse
Social behavior Behavior Love

Abandon
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Repent
States Time Aspectual time Once

Again

Conjugation return conjugation

How do you conjugate return?

return · verb

Examples return examples

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Simple sentences

You must return the book to him.
Return the money to him at once.
When will you return the money to me?
She prayed for her son's return.
If you are going to the library this afternoon, would you please return two books for me whilst you are there?
He asked me to return the money to him immediately.
I'd like to return this.
Tom asked Mary if she'd return soon.
Tom didn't return.
I'll return to this later.
I suggest you return to your quarters.
I have no home to return to.
I want to return to work.
Tom wanted to return to Boston.
The sooner you return, the happier your father will be.
I will have left when you return.
Could you show me your return ticket?
It is not my intention to return.
Do you have a return ticket to Japan?
Correct the mistake and return the file to Mr Luxemburg.
The good old days have gone, never to return.
When you return to your company, don't forget to keep in touch with me.
Let me know when you'll return home.
People were delighted at the safe return of the astronauts.
I'll call them tomorrow when I return home.
You should return home before it gets dark.
I will have finished the work before you return.
Please cut short your vacation and return.
I will return to the house before dark.

Movie subtitles

We must gather fuel and return here fast.
To return to the motherland like this.
People had finally begun to return, but.
I can't return.
Zero! Return that unit! That machine is the property of our military.
Anywho, we should return to Hanyang a day faster if possible.
I'll definitely return this favor back.
I told him to return back as humans because I found out the way to go back, but you refused.
What did the Magistrate's mother want in return for her body?
TANNOY: 'Will all staff please return to their stations?
Uh, oh, sorry it took me forever to return your call from Friday.
OK, Dr Plummer is based in Riverstone and is yet to return my calls, but Brenda White is at the homestead.
I can do that when I return with my lawyer.
How long will it take for his memory to return?
But. I can't go back. I can't return.
Zero! Return that unit!
The French will soon return home!
When you return, I'll be of age.
Which you know. 'cause you've been talking to my mom about my return.
And in return, I would ask that you stop your campaign of false propaganda.
Gather your troops, and return to HQ immediately.
Why would he have me return at a time like this?
And so, in order to return to the limelight as combatants, you've fabricated a nonexistent threat.
There's no guarantee that you'll return.
You're gonna deliver it or return it or whatever the people you work for want you to do with it.
You may return to your world for the present.
You've got to return that painting.
At least let his soul be able to return home. I order, Captain Eun Si Gyeong, to immediately return to the troop.
I will return safely.
Let's return directly to Korea.
No, I can't return to the North like this!
I didn't like living in Heaven. Since I can't have love in Heaven I told him to return back as humans because I found out the way to go back, but you refused.
Those days will never return.
Accordingly, I have been appointed Acting Inspector until his return.
And weren't you concerned when she didn't return from church?
You're gonna deliver it or return it.

News and current affairs

Men and women had not risked their lives simply to return to the old days of class privilege and social deprivation.
We cannot simply return to the past.
These rules must eventually be restored intact if Europe is to return to the path of sustainable growth, and a consensus will need to be forged now to make that happen.
We are approaching a point of no return, at which feedback loops will kick in and continue to warm the planet, no matter what we do.
Nor does the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan six years after their overthrow now seen too far-fetched.
Senior government officials take their cut of opium revenues or bribes in return for keeping quiet.
For them, Jewish settlements in the territories are not a return to historical lands, but security outposts, aimed at preventing - or repelling from a better strategic position - an attack on the Israeli heartland.
Germany urgently needs this kind of optimism, because, unfortunately, two universal principles will continue to apply in the future: first, the winter will return, and, second, the ball is round and the next game is always the most difficult.
In return, Ukraine will uphold its end of the deal: in addition to closing Chernobyl, we will introduce Western nuclear safety standards and renew cooperation with the IMF via the Extended Fund Facility program.
Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop: the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.
The educational system needs to be rebuilt almost from scratch, and with so many women anxious to return to teaching, a revived educational system will also help Afghanistan's democratic politicians gain a powerful lobby of workers.
If temperatures soon return to normal, the partnership can be restored.
But my hope is still to go abroad, learn skills, and return to help others here.
Government investors are not necessarily driven by the return-maximizing calculus that motivates private investors.
What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?
Or will we witness attempts to downplay the calamity and return to business as usual as soon as possible?
More such spending will not return these countries to a sustainable growth path.
But a return to high growth in developing countries requires that they resume their push into tradable goods and services.
Mujahedin factions and later the Taliban exported stands of fine-grained cedar by the truckload from Nangahar and surrounding provinces to Pakistan, often in return for arms.
The hope was that policy settings soon would return to pre-crisis norms.
Will the financial sector return to pre-crisis growth rates when the economic situation has been fully stabilized?
A recent study by Andy Haldane and others at the Bank of England casts doubt on the prospect of a return to the status quo ante.
Against that background, it is hard to believe that we will quickly return to the heady growth in financial assets, credit, and risk we saw from the 1970's to 2007.

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