return

Change speaker

You're listening to Joanna
She has an American accent.

NGSL Rank: 336
return
rɪˈtəːn Listen
Meanings
verb
  • come or go back to a place or person.
    E.g. he returned to America in the late autumn
  • give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person.
    E.g. complete the application form and return it to this address
  • yield or make (a profit).
    E.g. the company returned a profit of £4.3 million
  • (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office.
    E.g. the city of Glasgow returned eleven Labour MPs
  • continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles.
noun
  • an act of coming or going back to a place or activity.
    E.g. he celebrated his safe return from the war
  • a profit from an investment.
    E.g. product areas are being developed to produce maximum returns
  • an official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand.
    E.g. census returns
  • election to office.
    E.g. I campaigned for the return of forty-four MPs
  • a mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line.
  • a part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening.

Practise saying this word

return
Joanna
YouReset