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RELATED WORDS : amended return carriage return day return estimated tax return exponential return false return in return income tax return information return joint return point of no return rate of return return address return key return on invested capital return on investment return ticket return to tax return

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun return has 13 senses

• return(n = noun.communication) income tax return, tax return - document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability; "his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return"
is a kind of instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document
has particulars: amended return, declaration of estimated tax, estimated tax return, false return, information return, joint return

• return(n = noun.act) homecoming - a coming to or returning home; "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party"
is a kind of arrival
has particulars: repatriation
Derived form verb return₁

• return(n = noun.event) coming back - the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction; Array
is a kind of turn, turning
Derived form verb return₃

• return(n = noun.act) regaining, restitution, restoration - getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"
is a kind of acquisition
has particulars: clawback
Derived form verb return₂

• return(n = noun.act) Array - the act of going back to a prior location; "they set out on their return to the base camp"
is a kind of motion, move, movement
has particulars: reentry, remand
Derived forms verb return₁, verb return₅

• return(n = noun.possession) issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield - the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"
is a kind of income
has particulars: economic rent, rent, payback
Derived form verb return₁₅

• return(n = noun.event) recurrence - happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring"
is a kind of repeat, repetition
has particulars: atavism, reversion, throwback, flashback

• return(n = noun.communication) comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte - a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"
has particulars: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sass, sassing
is a kind of reply, response
Derived forms verb return₈, verb return₆

• return(n = noun.artifact) return key - the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed; Array
is a kind of key

• return(n = noun.act) getting even, paying back - a reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good as we got"
is a kind of group action
has particulars: payment, requital, retaliation, revenge, reciprocation, tit for tat

• return(n = noun.act) Array - a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player; "he won the point on a cross-court return"
is a part of lawn tennis, tennis
is a kind of tennis shot, tennis stroke
has particulars: backhand, backhand shot, backhand stroke, chop, chop shot, drive, dink, drop shot, forehand, forehand shot, forehand stroke, get, ground stroke, half volley, lob, overhead, smash, passing shot, volley

• return(n = noun.act) Array - (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble; Array
is a kind of run, running, running game, running play
Derived form verb return₇

• return(n = noun.act) reappearance - the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"
is a kind of appearance
has particulars: comeback

Verb return has 16 senses

• return(v = verb.motion) Array - go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
Derived forms noun return₂, noun return₅
Sample sentence:
The children return to the playground

• return(v = verb.possession) render - give back; "render money"
is one way to give
Derived form noun return₄
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

• return(v = verb.change) regress, retrovert, revert, turn back - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
is one way to change by reversal, reverse, turn
Derived form noun return₃
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

• return(v = verb.communication) come back, hark back, recall - go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
is one way to denote, refer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP

• return(v = verb.motion) bring back, take back - bring back to the point of departure; Array
is one way to bring, convey, take
Derived form noun return₅
Sample sentence:
They return the parcel to their parents

• return(v = verb.possession) Array - return in kind; "return a compliment"; "return her love"
is one way to reciprocate
Derived form noun return₈
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• return(v = verb.contact) Array - make a return; "return a kickback"
is one way to carry, transport
Derived form noun return₁₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• return(v = verb.communication) come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte - answer back; Array
is one way to answer, reply, respond
Derived form noun return₈
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

• return(v = verb.change) come back - be restored; "Her old vigor returned"
is one way to re-emerge, reappear
Sample sentence:
Something ----s

• return(v = verb.possession) give back, refund, repay - pay back; "Please refund me my money"
is one way to pay
Sample sentences:
They return the money to them
They return them the money

• return(v = verb.communication) deliver, render - pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
is one way to communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• return(v = verb.social) reelect - elect again; Array
is one way to elect
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

• return(v = verb.possession) devolve, fall, pass - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
is one way to change hands, change owners
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody

• return(v = verb.motion) Array - return to a previous position; in mathematics; "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
is one way to return
Sample sentence:
Something ----s

• return(v = verb.creation) generate, give, render, yield - give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
is one way to create, make, produce
Derived form noun return₆
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• return(v = verb.communication) Array - submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; "submit a bill to a legislative body"
is one way to subject, submit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

return

CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, about-face, acknowledge, acknowledgment, action and reaction, advent, advert, afford, alternate, alternation, amends, answer, answer back, answering, antiphon, arrival, atavism, atonement, automatic reaction, autonomic reaction, back answer, back talk, backchat, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, backward step, bandy, be here again, be quits with, be reflected, be sent back, beam, beat, beat signal, benefit, blips, blood money, boom, boomerang, bounce back, bounceback, bounces, bring back, bring in, capital gains, carry back, change, circle, cleanup, clear profit, cock, come again, come and go, come around, come back, come back at, come home, come in, come round, come round again, come up again, comeback, coming, commute, compensate, compensation, consideration, convalescence, cooperate, counter, counterblast, counterblow, counterchange, counterstroke, cycle, cyclicalness, damages, deliver, disenchantment, display, dividends, double, double back, double-dot display, doubling, duplication, earn, earnings, echo, echo back, echo signal, evasive reply, exchange, extradite, extradition, fall astern, fall behind, falling back, filthy lucre, flash back, flip-flop, gain, gains, get, get back at, get behind, get even with, gettings, give, give acknowledgment, give and take, give answer, give back, give-and-take, giving back, gleanings, go back, go backwards, go behind, go home, gross, gross profit, guerdon, hoard, homecoming, honorarium, imitation, income, indemnification, indemnity, interchange, interest, intermit, intermittence, intermittency, jerk back, keep coming, kickback, killing, lapse, lapse back, local oscillator signal, logroll, lose ground, lucre, makings, meed, meter, neat profit, net, net profit, offer, oscillate, oscillation, output signal, paper profits, pay, pay back, pay off, payment, pelf, pendulum motion, percentage, periodicalness, periodicity, perk, perks, permute, perquisite, pickings, picture, pips, piston motion, place in, plagiarism, predictable response, price, proceeds, proffer, profit, profits, pull back, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, put back, quittance, quotation, radar signal, rake-off, rally, react, reaction, reactivate, reading, ready reply, reappear, reappearance, rebirth, rebound, recede, receipt, receipts, recession, recidivate, recidivation, recidivism, reciprocate, reciprocation, reciprocity, reclamation, recoil, recommit, recommitment, recompense, reconstitute, reconversion, reconvert, recoupment, recover, recovery, recrudescence, recruit, recuperation, recur, recurrence, recursion, reddition, redoubling, redress, reduplication, reecho, reenact, reentrance, reentry, reestablish, refill, reflect, reflection, reflex, reflex action, refluence, reflux, reform, refund, refundment, regain, regress, regression, regular wave motion, regurgitation, rehabilitate, rehabilitation, reimbursement, reincarnation, reinstall, reinstate, reinstatement, reinstitute, reintegrate, reinvest, rejoin, rejoinder, relapse, remand, remandment, remigration, remit, remitter, remuneration, render, rendition, renew, renewal, reoccur, reoccurrence, reparation, repartee, repatriate, repatriation, repayment, repeat, repercuss, repetition, replace, replacement, replacing, replenish, replication, reply, report, repost, reproduction, requital, requite, requitement, rescript, rescription, resound, respond, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, restitution, restoration, restore, restoring, results, resume, resumption, resurface, retaliate, retaliation, retort, retribution, retroaction, retrocede, retrocession, retroflex, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrograde, retrogress, retrogression, retroversion, retrovert, retrusion, return answer, return for answer, return signal, return the compliment, returning, returns, revenue, reverberate, reverberation, reversal, reverse, reversion, revert, reverting, revest, revolve, revulsion, reward, rhythm, riposte, rise, roll, roll around, rollback, rotate, rumble, salvage, satisfaction, say, say in reply, seasonality, send back, sending back, setback, shoot back, short answer, signal, signal display, slip back, slipping back, smart money, snappy comeback, solatium, sound, spot, sternway, store, swap, switch, take, take back, take-in, takings, talk back, target image, throwback, trace, trade, transmitter signal, transpose, turn, turn back, turn in, turnabout, undulate, undulation, unthinking response, video signal, wealth, wergild, wheel, wheel around, winnings, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer, yield

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Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

Relapse

VB relapse, lapse, fall back, slide back, sink back, return, retrograde, recidivate, fall off again.

Commission

N commission, delegation, consignment, assignment, procuration, deputation, legation, mission, embassy, agency, agentship, power of attorney, clerkship, surrogacy, errand, charge, brevet, diploma, exequatur, permit, appointment, nomination, designation, return, charter, ordination, installation, inauguration, investiture, swearing-in, accession, coronation, enthronement, vicegerency, regency, regentship, viceroy, consignee, deputy, agent, delegate, consignee, commissioned, per procurationem.

VB commission, delegate, depute, consign, assign, charge, intrust, entrust, commit, commit to the hands of, authorize, put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain, install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown, enroll, enlist, give power of attorney to, employ, empower, set over, place over, send out, be commissioned, be accredited, represent, stand for, stand in the stead of, stand in the place of, stand in the shoes of.

Repetition

VB repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble, recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse, renew, rehearse, do over again, say over again, ring the changes on, harp on the same string, din in the ear, drum in the ear, conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of, resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Restitution

N restitution, return, rendition, reddition, restoration, reinvestment, recuperation, rehabilitation, reparation, atonement, compensation, indemnification, release, replevin, redemption, recovery, remitter, reversion, restoring, recuperative, suum cuique.

VB return, restore, give back, carry back, bring back, render, render up, give up, let go, unclutch, disgorge, regorge, regurgitate, recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify, remit, rehabilitate, repair, reinvest, revest, reinstate, redeem, recover, take back again, revest, revert.

Periodicity

VB recur in regular order, recur in regular succession, return, revolve, come again, come in its turn, come round, come round again, beat, pulsate, alternate, intermit.

Reversion

N reversion, return, revulsion, turning point, turn of the tide, status quo ante bellum, calm before a storm, alternation, inversion, recoil, retreat, regression, retrogression, restoration, relapse, recidivism, atavism, vicinism, reverting, regressive, revulsive, reactionary, retrorse, a rebours.

Receipt

N receipt, value received, money coming in, income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds, gross receipts, net profit, earnings, accepta, avails, rent, rent roll, rental, rentage, rack-rent, premium, bonus, sweepstakes, tontine, pension, annuity, jointure, alimony, palimony, pittance, emolument, receiving, received, profitable.

VB receive, take money, draw from, derive from, acquire, take, bring in, yield, afford, pay, return, accrue.

Reward

N reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon, price, indemnity, indemnification, quittance, compensation, reparation, redress, satisfaction, reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop, atonement, retribution, consideration, return, quid pro quo, salvage, perquisite, vail, douceur, bribe, hush money, smart money, blackmail, extortion, carcelage, solatium, allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation, pay, payment, emolument, tribute, batta, shot, scot, bonus, premium, tip, fee, honorarium, hire, dasturi, dustoori, mileage, crown, remunerative, remuneratory, munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory, rewarding, satisfactory, fideli certa merces, honor virtutis praemium, tibi seris tibi metis.

Recoil

N recoil, reaction, retroaction, revulsion, bounce, rebound, ricochet, repercussion, recalcitration, kick, contrecoup, springing back, elasticity, reflection, reflexion, reflex, reflux, reverberation, rebuff, repulse, return, ducks and drakes, boomerang, spring, reactionist, elastic collision, coefficient of restitution, recoiling, refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary, retroactive, on the rebound, on the recoil, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.

Regression

N regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil), flip-flop, volte-face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point, receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary, back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours, revenons a nos moutons, as you were.

VB recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire, retrograde, retrocede, back out, back down, balk, crawfish, crawl, withdraw, rebound, go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back, lose ground, fall astern, drop astern, backwater, put about, backtrack, take the back track, veer round, double, wheel, countermarch, ebb, regurgitate, jib, shrink, shy, turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon, retrace one's steps, dance the back step, sound a retreat, beat a retreat, go home.

Arrival

N arrival, advent, landing, debarkation, disembarkation, reception, welcome, vin d'honneur, home, goal, goalpost, landing place, landing stage, bunder, resting place, destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport, terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal, journey's end, anchorage, return, remigration, meeting, rencounter, encounter, completion, recursion, arriving, homeward bound, here, hither, Int, welcome!, hail!, all Hail!, good-day, good morrow!, any port in a storm.

VB arrive, get to, come to, come, reach, attain, come up with, come up to, overtake, make, fetch, complete, join, rejoin, light, alight, dismount, land, go ashore, debark, disembark, put in, put into, visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent, sit down, get to one's journey's end, make the land, be in at the death, come back, get back, come home, get home, return, come in, make one's appearance, drop in, detrain, deplane, outspan, de-orbit, come to hand, come at, come across, hit, come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon, meet, encounter, rencounter, come in contact.

Answer

N answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee, rescript, rescription, antiphon, antiphony, acknowledgment, password, echo, counter statement, discovery, solution, rationale, clue, Oedipus, oracle, return, answering, responsive, respondent, conclusive, because, on the scent, on the right scent, Int, eureka!.

Information

N information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge, publicity, data, communication, intimation, notice, notification, enunciation, annunciation, announcement, communiqu_e, representation, round robin, presentment, case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition, news, return, account, statement, mention, acquainting, instruction, outpouring, intercommunication, communicativeness, informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective, sleuth, mouchard, spy, newsmonger, messenger, amicus curiae, valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide, guidebook, handbook, vade mecum, manual, map, plan, chart, gazetteer, itinerary, hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay, gesture, gentle hint, broad hint, verbum sapienti, a word to the wise, insinuation, information theory, bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment, magnetic media, paper medium, optical media, random access memory, RAM, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, informed, communique, reported, published, expressive, explicit plain spoken, (artless), nuncupative, nuncupatory, declaratory, expository, enunciative, communicative, communicatory, from information received, a little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.

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