Etymology
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From Middle English refunden, refounden, from Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.
Pronunciation
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refund (third-person singular simple present refunds, present participle refunding, simple past and past participle refunded)
- (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.
1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.
- (transitive, colloquial) To obtain a refund.
this game sucks, imma refund it.
- (transitive, obsolete) To supply (someone) again with funds.
to refund a railroad loan
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To pour back (something).
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood
Translations
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to return (money) to (someone)
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: հատուցել (hy) (hatucʿel), փոխհատուցել (hy) (pʿoxhatucʿel), ծախսահատուցել (caxsahatucʿel)
- Bulgarian: връщам (bg) (vrǎštam), възстановявам (bg) (vǎzstanovjavam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 退款 (zh) (tuìkuǎn), 退錢/退钱 (zh) (tuìqián), 償還/偿还 (zh) (chánghuán)
- Danish: refundere
- Esperanto: repagi
- Finnish: hyvittää (fi), palauttaa (fi), maksaa takaisin
- French: rembourser (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: erstatten (de), zurückerstatten (de)
- Greek: επιστρέφω χρήματα (epistréfo chrímata)
- Hebrew: החזיר (hekhzír), נתן החזר (natán hekhzér)
- Hungarian: megtérít (hu), visszatérít (hu), visszafizet (hu)
- Irish: aisíoc
- Italian: rimborsare (it), rifondere, ripagare (it), restituire (it)
- Japanese: 払い戻す (はらいもどす, haraimodosu), 返金する (へんきんする, henkin suru)
- Khmer: សងប្រាក់វិញ (sɑɑngprakvɨñ)
- Korean: 환불하다 (ko) (hwanbulhada)
- Manx: aayioold, aayeeil
- Maori: whakahoki moni
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: refundować impf, zrefundować pf
- Portuguese: reembolsar (pt)
- Romanian: rambursa (ro), compensa (ro)
- Russian: компенси́ровать (ru) (kompensírovatʹ), возмеща́ть (ru) (vozmeščátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìol
- Spanish: reembolsar (es), devolver (es), reintegrar (es)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: ཕྱིར་སློག་བྱས་ (phyir slog byas)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: bồi hoàn
- Welsh: ad-dalu
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refund (plural refunds)
- 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.
Translations
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amount of money returned
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: إِعَادَة مَال f (ʔiʕādat māl)
- Armenian: հատուցում (hy) (hatucʿum), փոխհատուցում (hy) (pʿoxhatucʿum), ծախսահատուցում (caxsahatucʿum)
- Bulgarian: компенса́ция (bg) f (kompensácija)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 退款 (zh) (tuìkuǎn)
- Dutch: teruggave (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: hyvitys (fi), takaisinmaksu (fi), palautus (fi), maksupalautus
- French: remboursement (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Erstattung (de) f, Rückerstattung (de) f, Rückzahlung (de) f
- Greek: επιστροφή χρημάτων f (epistrofí chrimáton)
- Hebrew: הֶחְזֵר m (hekhzér)
- Hungarian: visszatérítés (hu), pénzvisszatérítés, pénzvisszafizetés, visszaadott pénz
- Irish: aisíoc m
- Italian: rimborso (it) m
- Japanese: 払い戻し (はらいもどし, haraimodoshi), 返金 (ja) (へんきん, henkin)
- Khmer: ប្រាក់សងវិញ (prak-sɑngvɨñ)
- Korean: 환불금(還拂金) (hwanbulgeum), 환불(還拂) (ko) (hwanbul)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: whakahokinga moni
- Marathi: paratkarne
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Ottoman Turkish: اعاده (iʼade)
- Polish: zwrot (pl) m (pieniędzy)
- Portuguese: reembolso (pt) m
- Romanian: rambursare (ro)
- Russian: компенса́ция (ru) f (kompensácija), возмеще́ние (ru) n (vozmeščénije), возвра́т (ru) m (vozvrát), возвращённая су́мма f (vozvraščónnaja súmma) (sum returned)
- Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìoladh m
- Spanish: reembolso (es), reintegro (es) m, devolución (es) f
- Swedish: återbetalning (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: geri ödemek
- Vietnamese: tiền thối
- Welsh: ad-daliad (cy) m
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