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Returns

/ɹɪˈtɜːnz/

The act of returning.

📖 Definitions of "Returns"

noun

1
The act of returning.
"I expect the house to be spotless upon my return."
2
A return ticket.
"Do you want a one-way or a return?"
3
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
"Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before."
4
An answer.
"a return to one's question"

verb

1
To come or go back (to a place or person).
"Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter."
2
To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
"To return to my story [...]"
3
To turn back, retreat.
4
To turn (something) round.

noun

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
come backverb	(intransitive) To return to a place.
get backverb	(transitive) To retrieve (something); to have (something) returned.
go backverb	(intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
comebacknoun	A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.
bring backverb	(transitive, ditransitive) To fetch something.
give backverb	(transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success.
recurrencenoun	The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
regainingnoun	The act by which something is regained.
restorationnoun	The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
revertverb	One who, or that which, reverts.
rejoinverb	To join again; to unite after separation.
refundnoun	(transitive) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
regressnoun	(intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
reelectverb	To elect for a second or subsequent time.
turn backverb	(intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
take backverb	(transitive) To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
yieldnoun	To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
repayverb	Synonym of pay back in all senses.
passverb	To change place.
giveverb	(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.