return
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is a type of: instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document - (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some rightsubtypes:
- amended return - a tax return that corrects the information in an earlier return
- declaration of estimated tax, estimated tax return - return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year
- false return - an incorrect income tax return
- information return - a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability
- joint return - a return filed by a husband and wife
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is a type of: arrival - the act of arriving at a certain placesubtypes: repatriation - the act of returning to the country of originsame as: homecoming
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same as: coming back
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is a type of: acquisition - the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of somethingsubtypes: clawback - finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
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is a type of: income - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of timesubtypes:
- economic rent, rent - the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- payback - financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
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is a type of: repeat, repetition - an event that repeatssubtypes:same as: recurrence
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is a type of: key - a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressedsame as: return key
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is a type of: group action - action taken by a group of peoplesubtypes:
- payment, requital - an act of requiting; returning in kind
- retaliation, revenge - action taken in return for an injury or offense
- reciprocation - the act of making or doing something in return
- tit for tat - an equivalent given in return
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is a type of: tennis shot, tennis stroke - the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racketsubtypes:
- backhand, backhand shot, backhand stroke - a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
- chop, chop shot - a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- drive - (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- dink, drop shot - a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net
- forehand, forehand shot, forehand stroke - (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
- get - a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- ground stroke - a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once
- half volley - a tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces
- lob - an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
- overhead, smash - a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- passing shot - a tennis return that passes an opponent who has approached the net
- volley - a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
is a part of: lawn tennis, tennis - a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court -
referred to in: american football, american football game - a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) playsis a type of: run, running, running game, running play - (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
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is a type of: appearance - the act of appearing in public viewsubtypes: comeback - return by a celebrity to some previously successful activitysame as: reappearance
Verb
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is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphoricallysubtypes:
- resurrect, rise, uprise - return from the dead
- revisit - visit again
- retrace, trace - to go back over again
- backtrack, double back, turn back - retrace one's course
- cut back, flash back - return in time
- home - return home accurately from a long distance
- go home, head home - return home
- return - return to a previous position; in mathematics
- boomerang - return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang
- bounce - come back after being refused
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is a type of: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodysame as: render
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subtypes:
- fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress - go back to bad behavior
- resile - return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
- go back, recover, recuperate - regain a former condition after a financial loss
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same as: bring back, take back
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is a type of: reciprocate - act, feel, or give mutually or in returnsubtypes: redound - return or recoil
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referred to in: football, football game - any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
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same as: come back
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is a type of: pay - give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
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is a type of: elect - select by a vote for an office or membershipsame as: reelect
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is a type of: change hands, change owners - be transferred to another owner
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is a type of: return - go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
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is a type of: submit - refer for judgment or considerationsubtypes: report out - return a bill after consideration and revision to a legislative body
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- Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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- Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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