RETURN

I. verb see: turn Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to go back or come back again , to go back in thought, practice, or condition ; revert , to pass back to an earlier possessor, reply , retort , transitive verb 1. to give (as an official account) to a superior, to elect (a candidate) as attested by official report or ~s, to bring back (as a writ or verdict) to an office or tribunal, 2. to bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place , to restore to a former or to a normal state, 3. to send back ; visit , retort , to bring in (as profit) ; yield , 5. to give or perform in ~ ; repay , to give back to the owner, reflect , to cause (as a wall) to continue in a different direction (as at a right angle), to lead (a specified suit or specified card of a suit) in response to a partner's earlier lead, 8. to hit back (a ball or shuttlecock), to run with (a football) after a change of possession (as by a punt or a fumble), see: reciprocate ~er noun II. noun Date: 14th century 1. the act of coming back to or from a place or condition, a regular or frequent ~ing ; recurrence, 2. a. the delivery of a legal order (as a writ) to the proper officer or court, an endorsed certificate stating an official's action in the execution of such an order, the sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners, an account or formal report, c. a report of the results of balloting, an official declaration of the election of a candidate, election , d. a formal statement on a required legal form showing taxable income, allowable deductions and exemptions, and the computation of the tax due, a list of taxable property, 3. the continuation usually at a right angle of the face or of a member of a building or of a molding or group of moldings, a means for conveying something (as water) back to its starting point, 4. a quantity of goods, consignment, or cargo coming back in exchange for goods sent out as a mercantile venture, the value of or profit from such venture, c. the profit from labor, investment, or business ; yield , results, the rate of profit in a process of production per unit of cost, 5. the act of ~ing something to a former place, condition, or ownership ; restitution , something ~ed, 6. something given in repayment or reciprocation , answer , retort , an answering play: as, a lead in a suit previously led by one's partner in a card game, the action or an instance of ~ing a ball (as in football or tennis), round-trip , III. adjective Date: 1676 1. having or formed by a change of direction , doubled on itself , 2. played, delivered, or given in ~ , taking place for the second time , used or taken on ~ing , ~ing or permitting ~ , of, relating to, or causing a ~ to a place or condition