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noun
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
- (US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
- (US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
- (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
verb
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
noun
- The action of reverting something.
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- turning in the opposite direction
- (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or their heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- returning to a former state
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- To recompense, to repay.
- To do or give a thing in return for (something).
- To retaliate, to seek revenge.
- To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.
- To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
- To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
- To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
- To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
- make repayment for or return something
noun
noun
- The act of ceding something back.
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- a small concavity
- the act of becoming more distant
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
noun
- a return of something after a period of abatement
- (medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.
- The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
- (botany) The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.
noun
- getting something back again
- a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- the act of restoring something to its original state
- That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
- A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- (law) A process of compensation for losses.
- (medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
noun
- getting something back again
- the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
- some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
- a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
- the state of being restored to its former good condition
- The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
- (countable) The result of such a process, such as a dental restoration (a dental prosthesis).
- The return of a socioeconomic formation in the role of the dominant mode of production.
- The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- (theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
noun
- getting something back again
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- 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.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) 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.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
verb
noun
noun
- The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
- the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
- (gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.
- (finance) The recovery of debt.
- (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
- A return to normal health.
- (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore
- The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
- (law) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.
- The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.
- gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury
- return to an original state
noun
- (figurative) A return; something paid back.
- (accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
- (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
- The total income received from a given source.
- The income returned by an investment.
- government income due to taxation
- the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
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noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- claim back
noun
- Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
- A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
- (law) Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
- An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
- (historical) Substitution of one drug for another.
- Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
noun
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- (law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
- The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
- kind and considerate regard for others
- a considerate and thoughtful act
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting)
- a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
- the process of giving careful thought to something
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- adjust for
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- make reparations or amends for
- make payment to; compensate
- make amends for; pay compensation for
- To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
- (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
- adjust for
- come to terms
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- devise or compose
- form or compose
- apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
- put in order or neaten
- To apply cosmetics.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- (intransitive) To compensate (for).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- (transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- (transitive, intransitive) To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To constitute, to compose.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- (transitive) To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
noun
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- dedicate
- cancel or discharge a debt
- be worth it
- make a compensation for
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bring in
- bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- render
- give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- discharge or settle
- (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- (transitive) To yield as a benefit.
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- (ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
noun
adj
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- (transitive) To pay back; to repay.
- yield a profit or result
- eliminate by paying off (debts)
- take vengeance on or get even
- pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- (transitive) To pay and discharge (an employee).
- (nautical) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
- (transitive) To pay back (repay) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on (the thing that was financed).
- (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
- (transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- The sum of money taken from a bank account.
- A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
- An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
- the act of ceasing to participate in an activity
- avoiding emotional involvement
- a retraction of a previously held position
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.
- the act of withdrawing
- a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
- the act of taking out money or other capital
- the termination of drug taking
verb
noun
- The result of an action, whether good or bad.
- Something of value given in return for an act.
- A prize promised for a certain deed or catch
- benefit resulting from some event or action
- payment made in return for a service rendered
- a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
- the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
noun
- something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
- (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
- Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- The act or principle of compensating.
- A recompense or reward for service.
- (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
noun
- An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
- (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
- (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
- (spectroscopy) Reflection or back-scattering of light by a material; (to send back)
- A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
- A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
- (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- a payment of money sent to a person in another place
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
verb
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adv
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
adj
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
noun
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
verb
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
noun
noun
- the act of sending off something
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- an official report (usually sent in haste)
- killing a person or animal
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
verb
- dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently
- send away towards a designated goal
- complete or carry out
- kill without delay
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To defeat
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive) To eat, especially quickly.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
verb
- (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
- (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate
- bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give or bring back
- return to its original or usable and functioning condition
noun
verb
noun
- payment for the release of someone
- money demanded for the return of a captured person
- the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
- (historical, law, UK) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
- Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
verb
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
- restore the honor or worth of
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- save from sins
- (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- (transitive) To repair, restore.
- (transitive) To set free by force.
- (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
- (transitive) To save, rescue.
- (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
- (transitive) To expiate, atone (for).
- (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
- (transitive, finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
noun
verb
noun
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way
- (US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
- (US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
- (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
noun
- The action of reverting something.
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- turning in the opposite direction
- (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or their heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- returning to a former state
- a failure to maintain a higher state
noun
- The act of ceding something back.
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- a small concavity
- the act of becoming more distant
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
noun
- a return of something after a period of abatement
- (medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.
- The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
- (botany) The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.
noun
- getting something back again
- a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- the act of restoring something to its original state
- That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
- A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- (law) A process of compensation for losses.
- (medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
noun
- getting something back again
- the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
- some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
- a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
- the state of being restored to its former good condition
- The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
- (countable) The result of such a process, such as a dental restoration (a dental prosthesis).
- The return of a socioeconomic formation in the role of the dominant mode of production.
- The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- (theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
noun
- getting something back again
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- 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.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) 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.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
noun
- The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
- the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
- (gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.
- (finance) The recovery of debt.
- (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
- A return to normal health.
- (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore
- The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
- (law) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.
- The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.
- gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury
- return to an original state
noun
- (figurative) A return; something paid back.
- (accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
- (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
- The total income received from a given source.
- The income returned by an investment.
- government income due to taxation
- the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- claim back
noun
- Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
- A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
- (law) Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
- An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
- (historical) Substitution of one drug for another.
- Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
noun
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- (law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
- The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
- kind and considerate regard for others
- a considerate and thoughtful act
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting)
- a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
- the process of giving careful thought to something
noun
- Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- The sum of money taken from a bank account.
- A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
- An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
- the act of ceasing to participate in an activity
- avoiding emotional involvement
- a retraction of a previously held position
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.
- the act of withdrawing
- a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
- the act of taking out money or other capital
- the termination of drug taking
noun
- something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
- (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
- Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- The act or principle of compensating.
- A recompense or reward for service.
- (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
noun
- An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
- (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
- (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
- (spectroscopy) Reflection or back-scattering of light by a material; (to send back)
- A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
- A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
- (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- a payment of money sent to a person in another place
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
verb
noun
noun
- the act of sending off something
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- an official report (usually sent in haste)
- killing a person or animal
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
verb
- dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently
- send away towards a designated goal
- complete or carry out
- kill without delay
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To defeat
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive) To eat, especially quickly.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- dedicate
- cancel or discharge a debt
- be worth it
- make a compensation for
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bring in
- bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- render
- give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- discharge or settle
- (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- (transitive) To yield as a benefit.
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- (ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
noun
adj
verb
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
verb
- To recompense, to repay.
- To do or give a thing in return for (something).
- To retaliate, to seek revenge.
- To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.
- To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
- To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
- To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
- To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
- make repayment for or return something
noun
verb
noun
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- adjust for
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- make reparations or amends for
- make payment to; compensate
- make amends for; pay compensation for
- To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
- (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
- adjust for
- come to terms
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- devise or compose
- form or compose
- apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
- put in order or neaten
- To apply cosmetics.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- (intransitive) To compensate (for).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- (transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- (transitive, intransitive) To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To constitute, to compose.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- (transitive) To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
noun
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- dedicate
- cancel or discharge a debt
- be worth it
- make a compensation for
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bring in
- bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- render
- give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- discharge or settle
- (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- (transitive) To yield as a benefit.
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- (ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
noun
adj
verb
- do or give something to somebody in return
- (transitive) To pay back; to repay.
- yield a profit or result
- eliminate by paying off (debts)
- take vengeance on or get even
- pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- (transitive) To pay and discharge (an employee).
- (nautical) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
- (transitive) To pay back (repay) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on (the thing that was financed).
- (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
- (transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
verb
verb
noun
noun
verb
verb
noun
- The result of an action, whether good or bad.
- Something of value given in return for an act.
- A prize promised for a certain deed or catch
- benefit resulting from some event or action
- payment made in return for a service rendered
- a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
- the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
noun
verb
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- claim back
verb
- (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
- (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate
- bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give or bring back
- return to its original or usable and functioning condition
noun
verb
noun
- payment for the release of someone
- money demanded for the return of a captured person
- the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
- (historical, law, UK) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
- Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
verb
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
- restore the honor or worth of
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- save from sins
- (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- (transitive) To repair, restore.
- (transitive) To set free by force.
- (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
- (transitive) To save, rescue.
- (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
- (transitive) To expiate, atone (for).
- (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
- (transitive, finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
adv
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
adj
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
noun
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
verb
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.