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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

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