Refund vs. Rebate: What's the Difference?

Refund and Rebate Definitions
Refund
To give back, especially money; return or repay
Refunded the purchase price.
Rebate
A deduction from an amount to be paid or a return of part of an amount given in payment.
Refund
To make repayment.
Rebate
Variant of rabbet.
Refund
A repayment of funds.
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Rebate
A cut or groove along or near the edge of a piece of wood that allows another piece to fit into it to form a joint.
Refund
An amount repaid.
Rebate
A joint so made.
Refund
(transitive) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference.
Rebate
To deduct or return (an amount) from a payment or bill.
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Refund
To supply (someone) again with funds.
To refund a railroad loan
Rebate
To lessen; diminish.
Refund
To pour back (something).
Rebate
To cut a rabbet in.
Refund
An amount of money returned.
If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.
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Rebate
To join by a rabbet.
Refund
To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
Rebate
To be joined by a rabbet.
Refund
To pour back.
Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object.
Rebate
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
Refund
To give back; to repay; to restore.
A governor, that had pillaged the people, was . . . sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken.
Rebate
The return of part of an amount already paid.
Refund
To supply again with funds; to reimburse.
Rebate
(photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
Refund
Money returned to a payer
Rebate
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
Refund
The act of returning money received previously
Rebate
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
Refund
Pay back;
Please refund me my money
Rebate
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
Rebate
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
Rebate
(transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
Rebate
(transitive) To diminish or lessen something
Rebate
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
Rebate
(transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
Rebate
To abate; to withdraw.
Rebate
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
Rebate
To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.
Rebate
To return a portion of a sum paid, as a method of discounting of prices.
Rebate
To abate; to withdraw.
Rebate
Diminution.
Rebate
Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
Rebate
A portion of a sum paid, returned to the purchaser, as a method of discounting. The rebate is sometimes returned by the manufacturer, after the full price is paid to the retailer by the purchaser.
Rebate
A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
Rebate
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
Rebate
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
Rebate
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
Rebate
A refund of some fraction of the amount paid
Rebate
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together
Rebate
Give a reduction in the price during a sale;
The store is rebating refrigerators this week
Rebate
Cut a rebate in (timber or stone)
Rebate
Join with a rebate;
Rebate the pieces of timber and stone