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The act of returning.
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I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
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A return ticket.
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Do you want a one-way or a return?
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An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
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Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
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An answer.
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a return to one's question
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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.
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election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
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Gain or loss from an investment.
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It yielded a return of 5%.
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: A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
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Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
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A carriage return character.
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The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
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A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
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A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant).
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The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
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A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
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Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
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A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
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The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
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A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.