return
verb
[ rɪˈtəːn ]
• come or go back to a place or person.
• "he returned to America in the late autumn"
Similar:
go back,
come back,
get back,
arrive back,
arrive home,
come home,
come again,
• give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person.
• "complete the application form and return it to this address"
Similar:
give back,
send back,
hand back,
take back,
carry back,
pay back,
repay,
remit,
restore,
put back,
replace,
reinstate,
reinstall,
Opposite:
keep,
throw away,
• yield or make (a profit).
• "the company returned a profit of £4.3 million"
Similar:
yield,
bring in,
earn,
make,
realize,
secure,
net,
gross,
clear,
pay out,
fetch,
pocket,
• (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office.
• "the city of Glasgow returned eleven Labour MPs"
• continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles.
return
noun
• an act of coming or going back to a place or activity.
• "he celebrated his safe return from the war"
• a profit from an investment.
• "product areas are being developed to produce maximum returns"
Similar:
yield,
profit,
returns,
gain,
income,
revenue,
interest,
dividend,
percentage,
bunce,
• an official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand.
• "census returns"
Similar:
statement,
report,
submission,
account,
paper,
record,
file,
dossier,
write-up,
data,
information,
log,
journal,
diary,
register,
summary,
document,
form,
• election to office.
• "I campaigned for the return of forty-four MPs"
• a mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line.
• a part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening.
Origin:
Middle English: the verb from Old French returner, from Latin re- ‘back’ + tornare ‘to turn’; the noun via Anglo-Norman French.
