returns
/ɹɪˈtɜːnz/ · noun
Meaning
- The act of returning.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An answer.
- 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.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To turn back, retreat.
- To turn (something) round.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- Merchandise returned to the retailer, wholesaler or supplier.
- A mild, light-coloured kind of tobacco.
- The rendering back of a writ to the proper officer.
- The return of the soldiers fit for duty.
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