return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭ-tûrnʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɜːn/
enpr: rĭ-tûrnʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɝn/
enpr: rĭ-tûrnʹ
ipa: /ɹəˈtɚːn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ɹəˈtʊːɹn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾɪˈtə(ɾ)n/
homophone: written
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: returns
form: returne
form: retvrn
Etymology: From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). Compare beturn.
Senses: examples: text: I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railroad station.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 12–13:
text: […] of the existence or nonexistence of parental intent to abandon a subject minor child, whether the best interests and welfare of such minor child will be served by taking custody from the parents, and whether return of a child to the parents would be detrimental to such child.
ref: 1976, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, page 423:
glosses: The act of returning.
examples: text: Do you want a one-way or a return?
glosses: A return ticket.
examples: text: Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
glosses: An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
examples: text: a return to one's question
glosses: An answer.
examples: text: election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
text: The other returns having come in, the result of the poll, that Sir James Graham had been superseded by Major Aglionby, was declared at Carlisle soon after 11 a.m.
ref: 1942 May-June, Charles E. Lee, “The Brampton Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 140, relating to an election in 1837:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: It yielded a return of 5%.
text: from the few hours we spend in prayer and the exercises of a pious life, the return is great and profitable
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
text: Liverpool have now won only five of their 17 home league games this season. It is a poor return for a team of Liverpool's pedigree and resources but, once again, Kenny Dalglish's team were the instigators of their own downfall as chance after chance went begging.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
glosses: Gain or loss from an investment.
examples: text: Hand in your return within 90 days of the end of the tax year.
topics: business
economics
finance
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A carriage return character.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
examples: text: The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
glosses: A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
topics: business
mining
glosses: A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
glosses: A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
examples: text: A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
topics: architecture
glosses: 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.
Synonyms: sense: the act of returning
word: gaincoming
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun return
word: abnormal return
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word: absolute return
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word: active return
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word: amended return
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word: annual return
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word: auto-return
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word: ball return
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word: book return
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word: bridge of no return
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word: by return
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word: by return mail
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word: by return of post
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word: carriage return
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word: day return
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word: dollar return
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word: early return
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word: Earth return vehicle
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word: eternal return
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word: exante return
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word: excess return
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word: expected return
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word: exponential return
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word: false return
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word: first return time
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word: hard return
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word: income tax return
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word: information return
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word: in return
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word: joint return
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word: kick return
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word: many happy returns
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word: market return
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word: mean return
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word: non-return
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word: non-return valve
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word: point of no return
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word: rate of return
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word: real return
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word: relative return
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word: return ace
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word: return address
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word: return ball
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word: return bend
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word: return check
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word: return crease
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word: return current
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word: return day
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word: return demonstration
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word: return envelope
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word: return extrasystole
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word: return fare
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word: return fire
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word: return flow
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word: return fraud
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word: return game
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word: return gift
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word: return key
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word: return match
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word: return of capital
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word: return on assets
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word: return on capital employed
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word: return on equity
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word: return on invested capital
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word: return on investment
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word: return on net assets
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word: return on sales
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word: return-oriented programming
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word: return pass
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word: return path
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word: return piece
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word: return pointer
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word: return shock
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word: return spring
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word: return stroke
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word: return tag
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word: return ticket
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word: return time
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word: return to form
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word: return to sender
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word: Return to Zero
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word: return type
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word: return valve
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word: risk-adjusted return
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word: risk-free return
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word: risk-return tradeoff
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word: safety-net return
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word: safety net return
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word: sale or return
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word: Saturn return
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word: side return
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word: soft return
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word: subperiod return
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word: tax return
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word: total return
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word: total return swap
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word: venous return
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word: warrant return