Returning Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Returning? What is its meaning in the dictionary? How to pronounce? Derivations, Antonyms, Related sentences, Words ending with Returning, Words starting with Returning, Example sentences, Synonyms and more...

Word: Returning

How to pronounce: rɪˈtɜːnɪŋ

How to pronounce: rɪˈtɜːn

Verb

Definitions:

1. Come or go back to a place or person.

Example sentences: "He returned to America in the late autumn"

2. Give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person.

Example sentences: "Complete the application form and return it to this address"

3. Yield or make (a profit)

Example sentences: "The company returned a profit of £4.3 million"

4. (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office.

Example sentences: "The city of Glasgow returned eleven Labour MPs"

5. Continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles.

Noun

Definitions:

1. An act of coming or going back to a place or activity.

Example sentences: "He celebrated his safe return from the war"

2. A profit from an investment.

Example sentences: "Product areas are being developed to produce maximum returns"

3. An official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand.

Example sentences: "Census returns"

4. Election to office.

Example sentences: "I campaigned for the return of forty-four MPs"

5. A mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line.A key pressed on a computer keyboard to simulate a carriage return in a word-processing program, or to indicate the end of a command or data string.

6. A part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening.

Example sentences: "The master bedroom is off the first floor return which has a window that overlooks the River Suir."

Synonyms:

reverting

Synonyms:

payback

proceeds

payoff

back

come back

comeback

homecoming