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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
refund
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
▪ The Rialto will giving out full refunds to all ticket-holders for both shows.
▪ You're entitled to a full refund because the goods aren't of merchantable quality.
▪ But remember - if you accept a repair you may lose your right to a full refund later.
▪ If not entirely satisfied, return within 14 days for a full refund.
▪ He said most ticket-holders had already been warned of the cancellation and would be given a full refund.
▪ We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund.
■ NOUN
tax
▪ You said when you get your income tax refund.
▪ Delta Air Lines says it is no longer processing airline excise tax refunds for people who bought tickets with a credit card.
▪ To get direct deposit of your tax refund, file Form 8888 with your return.
■ VERB
claim
▪ The charter was meant to help passengers claim refunds.
▪ The back of the form tells you how to claim your refund.
get
▪ Customers will get refunds and other firms are helping to find alternative trips.
▪ Better to tear down the igloo and try to get a refund on the bricks.
▪ Disappointment turned to disbelief among the 18,000 crowd packed into Edgbaston when they were told they would not get a refund.
▪ You said when you get your income tax refund.
▪ If you bought software from a shop and didn't find it to be suitable you are unlikely to get a refund.
▪ The crux of the case is whether consumers should get the refund from the airlines or the government.
▪ It promised about 25,000 people who have already booked that they will get refunds of up to £70 each.
▪ The average legitimate preparer manages to get refunds for about three-quarters of his or her clients.
give
▪ Ticket-holders for the performances will be given a refund.
▪ The Rialto will giving out full refunds to all ticket-holders for both shows.
▪ He said most ticket-holders had already been warned of the cancellation and would be given a full refund.
▪ The distributors say they're prepared to give refunds for safety's sake.
▪ In any case, I had already decided to give her a refund and a-new drier.
▪ One of the most recent queries highlighted our local Savacentre store as giving credits instead of cash refunds.
▪ You might visit one site, for example, and read six points that describe when they give refunds.
▪ He therefore kept £2 for himself and, having £3 left, gave each delegate £1 refund.
make
▪ Now, though, a wife has her own tax allowances and can make refund claims in her own name.
▪ Plan ahead: Make sure your refund is as small as possible.
obtain
▪ Your move to obtain a refund is the right one.
offer
▪ We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund.
▪ Some retailers offer partial refunds or store credits only.
▪ Riders stranded last night were offered refunds on their admissions to the park and parking fees.
receive
▪ He says his company paid seventy eight thousand pounds to promoters, and has never received a penny in refunds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You can return it within 30 days for a full refund.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Call the venue for more information about ticket refunds.
▪ Existing tickets are valid for the new dates although refunds can be obtained if required form point of purchase.
▪ However, when the loan is repaid, the company is entitled to a refund of the corporation tax.
▪ I would like to apologise to everyone concerned and reassure them that I am doing everything to resolve the matter of refunds.
▪ The charter was meant to help passengers claim refunds.
▪ The lawsuits seek not only to stop sales of the product but also civil penalties, court costs and refunds for buyers.
▪ To get direct deposit of your tax refund, file Form 8888 with your return.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
money
▪ Isabel had not offered to refund that money.
▪ He can refund the money or donate it to charity.
▪ And, if you're not delighted with your purchase, we guarantee to refund your money in full.
▪ And as with all our offers we guarantee to refund your money if you're not entirely satisfied with your order.
tax
▪ P47 - Employer's application to the inspector of taxes for authority to refund tax over £20.
▪ The agency issues more than $ 130 billion in tax refunds each year.
▪ Imagine if only 13 percent of the adults who are owed tax refunds this year got them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Saturday's concert is canceled, and tickets will be refunded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If this should happen to your, please ask for a receipt and we will refund these extra charges.
▪ Salesmen claimed this would be refunded as soon as the seller's allotment letter arrived.
▪ She argued that BofA underpaid because it used only simple interest in refunding the overcharged fees.
▪ The money was refunded only when proof was provided that the migrant had found a job.
▪ The offer is, apparently, to refund 20% of a fare if a train is more than an hour late.
▪ We will refund the part of your premium which applies to the rest of the period of the policy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refund

Refund \Re*fund"\ (r?*f?nd"), v. t. [L. refundere; pref. re- re- + fundere to pour: cf. F. refondre, refonder. See Fuse to melt, and cf. Refound to cast again, 1st Refuse.]

  1. To pour back. [R. & Obs.]

    Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object.
    --Ray.

  2. To give back; to repay; to restore.

    A governor, that had pillaged the people, was . . . sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken.
    --L'Estrange.

  3. To supply again with funds; to reimburse. [Obs.]

Refund

Refund \Re*fund"\ (r?*f?nd"), v. t. [Pref. re- + fund.] To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
refund

"to give back, restore," early 15c. (earlier "to pour back," late 14c.), from Old French refunder "restore" and directly from Latin refundere "give back, restore, return," literally "pour back, flow back," from re- "back" (see re-) + fundere "to pour" (see found (v.2)). Specifically of money from 1550s. Related: Refunded; refunding.

refund

"a return of money paid," 1782, from refund (v.).

Wiktionary
refund

n. An amount of money returned. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse. 2 (context obsolete English) To supply again with funds. 3 (context obsolete rare English) To pour back.

WordNet
refund
  1. n. money returned to a payer

  2. the act of returning money received previously [syn: repayment]

  3. v. pay back; "Please refund me my money" [syn: return, repay, give back]

Wikipedia
Refund

Refund may refer to:

  • Money back guarantee - a guarantee that, if a buyer is not satisfied with a product or service, a refund will be made.
  • Tax refund - refund on taxes when the tax liability is less than the taxes paid.
  • Refunding - when a debt holders calls back bonds with the express purpose of reissuing new debt.
  • Deposit-refund system - a surcharge on a product when purchased and a rebate when it is returned.
  • Tax-free shopping - allows shoppers to get a refund of any sales tax.
Refund (horse)

Refund was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He won the 1888 Preakness Stakes.

Usage examples of "refund".

Lisa had reservations about the refund policy--it seemed to her to be more about business than medicine.

Then Edmond had instituted the refund policy for women under forty, and the clinic statistics had risen, and the numbers of patients had increased dramatically.

Gina Franco had asked about it yesterday, wanting to know how clinics could afford to offer refund policies and not go broke, since with each IVF cycle, the odds of getting pregnant decreased.

And Lisa had answered that they could afford to offer the refund because they had great success helping these women conceive.

All thirty-one women--thirty-two, with Naomi--were on the refund plan.

An order by an Area Rent Director reducing an unapproved rental and requiring the landlord to refund the excess previously collected, was held, with one dissenting vote, not to be the type of retroactivity which is condemned by law.

And be it further enacted, That if any State, having so received any such bonds, shall at any time afterwards by law reintroduce or tolerate slavery within its limits, contrary to the act of abolishment upon which such bonds shall have been received, said bonds so received by said State shall at once be null and void, in whosesoever hands they may be, and such State shall refund to the United States all interest which may have been paid on such bonds.

If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.

Mansfield Sothern collapses in his dressing room a few minutes before the curtain is to rise, and, as the gaff is all sold out, it is naturally a terrible predicament for James Burdekin, as he may have to refund the money, and thinking of this has James on the verge of a collapse himself.

I think the bylaws say if a guest keeps causing trouble I can give him a refund.

And Lopez, when he wrote to the Duke, assured himself that if, by any miracle, his letter should produce pecuniary results in the shape of a payment from the Duke, he would refund the money so obtained to Mr Wharton.

In after days, however, I would willingly have refunded his money, but, as fate would have it, we did not see each other for a long time, and when I met him again I was not in a position to return the amount.

The provincials did not dare to press for the tax to be refunded, so Tiberius kept three quarters of the estate: for there was no longer any real distinction between the Military Treasury, the Public Treasury and the Privy Purse.

Think of the refunds, the rescheduling, the bribing of transportation executives.

His bunkmates taught him how to earn a few bucks by bagging groceries, weeding gardens and washing windows, and collecting bottles to refund at the Winn-Dixie market.