Concept cluster: Tasks > Returning or reverting
v
To request someone's return.
n
An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up.
n
A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
v
(transitive, computing) To return previously allocated memory.
v
(transitive) To return or release (something previously requisitioned).
n
(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A taking back again; recovery.
v
(intransitive) Return to where one came from.
v
(transitive) To return contact with (someone); to return to someone in response to a request
v
(transitive) To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.).
v
(industrial relations) To return to one's job after having held, or failed to obtain, a position in a trade union.
v
(transitive, by extension) To restart after a disaster or trauma.
v
To reinvest profits into a business
v
To reinvest profits into a business
v
(transitive) To return something to its original place.
v
(transitive) Alternative form of recall (“To call again.”) [(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).]
v
(transitive) To introduce again.
v
(transitive) To treat or deal with (a topic) again or differently.
v
(US) To renegotiate a contract.
v
To advance again.
v
To allot for a second or subsequent time
v
To seize and reassign.
v
(transitive) To archive again.
v
(transitive) To attract again or anew.
v
(transitive) To bait again; to readd bait to.
v
(transitive) To barter again.
v
(transitive) To besiege again.
v
(transitive) To betray again.
v
(transitive) To borrow again or back.
v
Obsolete spelling of recall [(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).]
v
(transitive, by extension) To express repugnance or opposition.
v
(transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
v
(transitive) To repair (a book) by replacing the case.
n
(finance) The adjustment of a loan that would otherwise be defaulted.
v
(intransitive) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
n
(obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
v
(transitive) To conceal again.
v
(obscure, transitive) To put away; to set apart.
v
(transitive) To rephrase.
v
To make back, as an investment.
v
(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
n
(dated) The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery)
n
Instance of getting something back.
v
(obsolete) To go back to using or doing something.
v
To deal playing cards again.
v
(intransitive) To defect again.
v
(obsolete) To report; to deliver the answer of.
v
(now rare) To demand the return of (someone or something).
v
To give or pay out again.
v
To dispose again; to sell on.
v
To earn back something one has lost.
n
(uncountable) The condition of being reemployed
v
To recreate an event, especially a historical battle.
v
(transitive) To ford (a body of water) again.
v
To forward again, to forward something that has already been forwarded.
v
(transitive) To grant (something) again or in a different way.
v
(military) To redeploy troops with different hats, uniforms, etc.
v
(transitive) To interest again or anew.
v
(transitive) To japan again.
v
(intransitive, now rare) To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses.
v
To let a property again
v
To send a prisoner back to custody.
n
(fencing) A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
v
(transitive) To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission.
v
(transitive) To restore or replace.
n
Anything remitted; remittance.
v
(transitive) To make over as a return.
v
(transitive, computing, Unix) To change (usually to lower) the priority of a process that is already running.
v
To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.
v
(transitive) To return (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.
v
(transitive) To replevy.
v
(transitive, informal) repossess
n
Obsolete form of reposal. [The act or state of reposing.]
v
(dated, reflexive) To gain back possession of.
v
(transitive, by extension) To give (oneself) new challenges or environments as a means of personal growth.
v
Give a new price to
v
(transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
n
(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
v
To take back or away.
v
Obsolete form of reprise. [(obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.]
v
(transitive) To supply with provisions again.
n
The act of acquiring new provisions to replace used up supplies.
n
a second retreat.
v
To return (to something) again.
v
(military, transitive) to assign a new role to
v
(transitive) To run (a previously broadcast television program) again.
n
(technology) That which sends something again.
v
(transitive) To ship something again.
n
(uncountable) The condition of being reshipped.
n
The transfer of a business operation back to its country of origin.
v
(video games, slang) To reallocate the distribution of skill points on a character's skill tree, changing their specialization.
v
(intransitive, politics) To stand again (for office).
v
(transitive) To steer again or on a different course.
v
(transitive) To strike again.
v
(intransitive) To strive anew.
v
(finance) To modify the terms of a loan, providing relief to a debtor who would otherwise be forced to default.
v
(transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
v
To swallow again.
v
to take something back
v
(transitive) To terminate again.
v
(transitive) To tier again; to arrange in a new hierarchy.
n
(military, slang) A person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.
v
(transitive) To triage again.
v
(transitive, especially computing) To fetch or carry back something.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To try or attempt again.
v
(transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
n
An internship-like program for experienced workers seeking to reenter the workforce after an extended period, particularly in a new line of work.
v
(transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
v
To invest again with possession or office.
v
(transitive) To return (goods) to a warehouse.
v
To wed again.
v
(transitive) To withdraw again.
v
To make a comeback after a disaster that almost led to a tragic end; to make a comeback after a long hiatus; to come back into common use or practice, or back into popularity.
v
To regain possession of something
v
(transitive) To hire again (a person who was fired).
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(transitive, idiomatic) To get (someone) to be one's partner, after having been apart.

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