return
What is the Definition of return?
Noun:
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- a coming to or returning home
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- getting something back again
- the act of going back to a prior location
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- a reciprocal group action
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- (American football)
- the act of someone appearing again
Verb:
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- give back
- go back to a previous state
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- return in kind
- make a return
- answer back
- be restored
- pay back
- pass down
- elect again
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- give or supply
- submit (a report, etc.)
How can I use return in a sentence?
Nevertheless, Harry, while you may only have delayed his return to power, it will merely take someone else who is prepared to fight what seems a losing battle next time — and if he is delayed again, and again, why, he may never return to power.
But I do not understand who — Can you think of nobody who has waited many years to return to power, who has clung to life, awaiting their chance?
The act of giving without expecting anything in return reflects true human being qualities. - Акт дарения без ожидания чего-либо взамен отражает истинные качества человеческой сущности.
Ron had fallen asleep in the dark common room, waiting for them to return.
I shall return when we are ready for you, said Professor McGonagall.
Other meanings of return (synonyms, cognates).
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| return instruction |
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| return ticket |
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