returns
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtɜːnz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtɝnz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nz
- Hyphenation: re‧turns
Noun edit
returns
Noun edit
returns
- (plural only) Merchandise returned to the retailer, wholesaler or supplier.
- 2002, Irina Dunn, The writer's guide[1], page 129:
- The number of unsold books that booksellers return to publishers (called the rate of returns) has been averaging between 25 per cent and 35 per cent.
- A mild, light-coloured kind of tobacco.
- (law) The rendering back of a writ to the proper officer.
- (military) The return of the soldiers fit for duty.
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Verb edit
returns
- third-person singular simple present indicative of return