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Sounds | rihter'n; riyter'n |
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Rhymes | adjourn, andiron, auburn, and 58 more rhymes in ern at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability. |
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Examples | "his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return" |
Synonyms | tax return, income tax return |
Narrower | amended return; declaration of estimated tax, estimated tax return; false return; information return; joint return |
Broader | legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument |
Meaning | A coming to or returning home. |
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Examples | "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party" |
Synonyms | homecoming |
Narrower | repatriation |
Broader | arrival |
Verbs | return |
Meaning | The occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction. |
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Synonyms | coming back |
Broader | turning, turn |
Verbs | return |
Meaning | Getting something back again. |
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Synonyms | restitution, restoration, regaining |
Narrower | clawback |
Broader | acquisition |
Verbs | return |
Meaning | The act of returning to a prior location. |
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Examples | "they set out on their return to the base camp" |
Narrower | reentry; remand |
Broader | motion, movement, move |
Verbs | return; return |
Meaning | The income arising from land or other property. |
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Examples | "the average return was about 5%" |
Synonyms | issue, proceeds, take, takings, yield, payoff |
Narrower | economic rent, rent; payback |
Broader | income |
Verbs | return |
Meaning | Happening again (especially at regular intervals). |
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Examples | "the return of spring" |
Synonyms | recurrence |
Narrower | atavism, reversion, throwback; flashback |
Broader | repeat, repetition |
Meaning | A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one). |
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Synonyms | rejoinder, retort, riposte, replication, comeback, counter |
Narrower | sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth |
Broader | reply, response |
Verbs | return; return |
Meaning | The key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed. |
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Synonyms | return key |
Broader | key |
Meaning | A reciprocal group action. |
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Examples | "in return we gave them as good as we got" |
Synonyms | paying back, getting even |
Narrower | requital; retaliation, revenge; reciprocation; tit for tat |
Broader | group action |
Meaning | A tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player. |
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Examples | "he won the point on a cross-court return" |
Part of | tennis, lawn tennis |
Narrower | forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot; backhand, backhand stroke, backhand shot; chop, chop shot; drive; volley; ground stroke; half volley; lob; overhead, smash; drop shot, dink; passing shot |
Broader | tennis stroke, tennis shot |
Meaning | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble. |
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Category | American football, American football game |
Broader | run, running, running play, running game |
Verbs | return |
Meaning | The act of someone appearing again. |
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Synonyms | reappearance |
Narrower | comeback |
Broader | appearance |
Meaning | Come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | The children return to the playground |
Synonyms | go back, get back, come back |
Narrower | resurrect, rise, uprise; revisit; trace, retrace; backtrack, turn back, double back; cut back, flash back; home; go home, head home; return; boomerang; bounce |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Nouns | return; return |
Meaning | Give back. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
Synonyms | render |
Narrower | feed back, resubmit |
Broader | give |
Nouns | return |
Meaning | Go back to a previous state. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | revert, retrovert, regress, turn back |
Narrower | relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back; resile; recover, go back, recuperate |
Broader | change by reversal, turn, reverse |
Nouns | return |
Meaning | Go back to something earlier. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | hark back, come back, recall |
Narrower | recur, go back |
Broader | denote, refer |
Meaning | Bring back to the point of departure. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody; Somebody ----s something PP |
Model | They return the parcel to their parents |
Synonyms | take back, bring back |
Broader | bring, convey, take |
Nouns | return |
Meaning | Return in kind. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "return a compliment"; "return her love" |
Broader | reciprocate |
Nouns | return |
Meaning | Make a return. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "return a kickback" |
Category | football, football game |
Broader | transport, carry |
Nouns | return |
Meaning | Answer back. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Synonyms | retort, come back, repay, riposte, rejoin |
Broader | answer, reply, respond |
Nouns | return |
Meaning | Be restored. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "Her old vigor returned" |
Synonyms | come back |
Broader | reappear, re-emerge |
Meaning | Pay back. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
Model | They return the money to them; They return them the money |
Synonyms | refund, repay, give back |
Narrower | reimburse; restore, restitute |
Broader | pay |
Meaning | Pass down. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | render, deliver |
Broader | communicate, pass on, pass, put across |
Meaning | Elect again. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | reelect |
Broader | elect |
Meaning | Be inherited by. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "The land returned to the family" |
Synonyms | fall, pass, devolve |
Narrower | fall, light |
Broader | change hands |
Similar to | accrue, fall |
Meaning | Return to a previous position. In mathematics. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "The point returned to the interior of the figure" |
Broader | return, go back, get back, come back |
Meaning | Give or supply. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | render, yield, give, generate |
Broader | produce, make, create |
Similar to | give, bring about, yield; establish, give |
Nouns | return |
Meaning | Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
Narrower | report out |
Broader | submit, subject |