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Return
rɪˈtəːn
- come or go back to a place or person
"he returned to America in the late autumn"
go back come back get back arrive back arrive home come home come again- go back to (a particular situation)
"I'll be glad when things return to normal"
- divert one's attention back to
"he returned to his newspaper"
- (especially of a feeling) reoccur after a period of absence
"her appetite had returned"
- play the last nine holes in a round of eighteen holes
"McAllister went out in 43 and returned in 32"
- give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person
"complete the application form and return it to this address"
- feel, say, or do (the same feeling, action, etc.) in response
"she returned his kiss"
- (in tennis and other sports) hit or send (the ball) back to an opponent
"the aim is to make the other side unable to return the ball"
- intercept (a pass, kick, or fumble by the opposing team) and run upfield with the ball
"they had six passes intercepted—five were returned for touchdowns"
- (of a judge or jury) state or present (a decision or verdict) in response to a formal request
"the jury returned the unanimous guilty verdict"
- lead (a card, especially one of a suit led earlier by one's partner) after taking a trick
"he returned a Diamond won by his partner who now played the 10 of Spades"
- yield or make (a profit)
"the company returned a profit of £4.3 million"
- (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office
"the city of Glasgow returned eleven Labour MPs"
- continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles
- an act of coming or going back to a place or activity
"he celebrated his safe return from the war"
homecoming travel back- an act of going back to an earlier state or situation
"the designer advocated a return to elegance"
- the action of returning something
"the tape is ready to despatch to you on return of the documents"
- (in tennis and other sports) a stroke played in response to a serve or other stroke by one's opponent
- a thing which has been given or sent back, especially an unwanted ticket for a sporting event or play
"it might be worth checking with the box office for returns"
- a ticket which allows someone to travel to a place and back again
"a return ticket to the airport"
- an electrical conductor bringing a current back to its source
- a second contest between the same opponents
"he scored his first Test try in the return at Avignon"
- a profit from an investment
"product areas are being developed to produce maximum returns"
- a good rate of return
- an official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand
"census returns"
statement report submission account paper record file dossier write-up data information log journal diary register summary- a returning officer's announcement of an election result
"election returns showed his candidate had lost by 304 votes"
- an endorsement or report by a court officer or sheriff on a writ
- election to office
"I campaigned for the return of forty-four MPs"
- a mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line
- a key pressed on a computer keyboard to simulate a carriage return in a word-processing program, or to indicate the end of a command or data string
- a part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening