Refund vs. Rebate: What's the Difference?

To give back, especially money; return or repay

A deduction from an amount to be paid or a return of part of an amount given in payment.

To make repayment.

Variant of rabbet.

A repayment of funds.

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.

An amount repaid.

A joint so made.

(transitive) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.

To deduct or return (an amount) from a payment or bill.

To supply (someone) again with funds.

To lessen; diminish.

To pour back (something).

To cut a rabbet in.

An amount of money returned.

To join by a rabbet.

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

To be joined by a rabbet.

To pour back.

A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.

To give back; to repay; to restore.

The return of part of an amount already paid.

To supply again with funds; to reimburse.

(photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.

Money returned to a payer

A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.

The act of returning money received previously

A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

Pay back;

An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

(transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment

(transitive) To diminish or lessen something

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

(transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something

To abate; to withdraw.

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.

To return a portion of a sum paid, as a method of discounting of prices.

To abate; to withdraw.

Diminution.

Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.

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.

A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.

A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

A refund of some fraction of the amount paid

A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together

Give a reduction in the price during a sale;

Cut a rebate in (timber or stone)

Join with a rebate;