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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
▸ verb:  To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
▸ verb:  (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
▸ verb:  (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
▸ verb:  (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
▸ verb:  (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
▸ verb:  (British, by extension, dated in the US) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
▸ verb:  (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
▸ noun:  The act of returning.
▸ noun:  A return ticket.
▸ noun:  An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
▸ noun:  An answer.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  Gain or loss from an investment.
▸ noun:  (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
▸ noun:  (computing) A carriage return character.
▸ noun:  (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
▸ noun:  (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
▸ noun:  A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
▸ noun:  A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
▸ noun:  (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
▸ noun:  (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
▸ noun:  (architecture) 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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