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n.
An answer; as, a return to one's question.
v. t.
To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
a.
Admitting no return.
n.
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.
v. t.
To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
v. t.
To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
n.
A day in bank. See Return day, below.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
n.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Return
a.
Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
One who returns.
a.
Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
v. t.
To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
v. t.
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.
n.
That which is returned.
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