What is the meaning of return?

noun

• Document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability.
  • usage: "his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return"
  • synonyms: tax return, income tax return
• A coming to or returning home.
  • usage: "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party"
  • synonyms: homecoming
• The occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction.
  • synonyms: coming back
• Getting something back again.
  • usage: "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"
  • synonyms: restitution, restoration, regaining
• The act of going back to a prior location.
  • usage: "they set out on their return to the base camp"
• The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.
  • usage: "the average return was about 5"
  • synonyms: issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
• Happening again (especially at regular intervals. )
  • usage: "the return of spring"
  • synonyms: recurrence
• A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one. )
  • usage: "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"
  • synonyms: rejoinder, retort, riposte, replication, comeback, counter
• The key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed.
  • synonyms: return key
• A reciprocal group action.
  • usage: "in return we gave them as good as we got"
  • synonyms: paying back, getting even
• A tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player.
  • usage: "he won the point on a cross-court return"
• American football. ( the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble)
• The act of someone appearing again.
  • usage: "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"
  • synonyms: reappearance

verb

• Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.
  • usage: "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
• Give back.
  • usage: "render money"
  • synonyms: render
• Go back to a previous state.
  • usage: "We reverted to the old rules"
  • synonyms: revert, retrovert, regress, turn back
• Go back to something earlier.
  • usage: "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
  • synonyms: hark back, come back, recall
• Bring back to the point of departure.
  • synonyms: take back, bring back
• Return in kind.
  • usage: "return a compliment"; "return her love"
• Make a return.
  • usage: "return a kickback"
• Answer back.
  • synonyms: retort, come back, repay, riposte, rejoin
• Be restored.
  • usage: "Her old vigor returned"
  • synonyms: come back
• Pay back.
  • usage: "Please refund me my money"
  • synonyms: refund, repay, give back
• Pass down.
  • usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
  • synonyms: render, deliver
• Elect again.
  • synonyms: reelect
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • synonyms: fall, pass, devolve
• Return to a previous position; in mathematics.
  • usage: "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
• Give or supply.
  • usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
  • synonyms: render, yield, give, generate
• Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority.
  • usage: "submit a bill to a legislative body"