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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or
condition. |
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To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular
or irregular; to appear again. |
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To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. |
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To revert; to pass back into possession. |
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To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
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To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a
borrowed book, or a hired horse. |
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To repay; as, to return borrowed money. |
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To give in requital or recompense; to requite. |
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To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to
return thanks. |
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To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. |
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To report, or bring back and make known. |
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To render, as an account, usually an official account,
to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to
return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of
an election. |
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Hence, to elect according to the official report of the
election officers. |
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To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office,
with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ. |
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To convey into official custody, or to a general
depository. |
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To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
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To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to
return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. |
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The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the
same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return
of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary. |
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The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the
same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution;
as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return
in tennis. |
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That which is returned. |
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A payment; a remittance; a requital. |
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An answer; as, a return to one's question. |
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An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a
duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election
returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially,
in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general
information. |
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The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an
investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
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The continuation in a different direction, most often at a
right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a
molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the
longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of
twenty feet north and south. |
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The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or
execution, to the proper officer or court. |
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The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in
execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
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The sending back of a commission with the certificate of
the commissioners. |
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A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
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An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the
commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for
duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions,
etc. |
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The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
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