return

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(noun): The act of returning.
(noun): A return ticket.
(noun): An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
(noun): An answer.
(noun): An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
(noun): Gain or loss from an investment.
(noun): : A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
(noun): A carriage return character.
(noun): The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
(noun): A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
(noun): A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant).
(noun): A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
(noun): Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
(noun): A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
(noun): The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
(verb): To come or go back (to a place or person).
(verb): To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
(verb): To turn back, retreat.
(verb): To turn (something) round.
(verb): To place or put back something where it had been.
(verb): To give something back to its original holder or owner.
(verb): To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
(verb): To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
(verb): To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
(verb): To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
(verb): To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
(verb): To say in reply; to respond.
(verb): To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
(verb): To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
(verb): To retort; to throw back.
(verb): To report, or bring back and make known.
(verb): (by extension) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.

I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
Do you want a one-way or a return?
Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
a return to one's question
election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold