English words for 'The act of ceding something back.'
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noun
- The act of ceding something back.
- the act of ceding 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
- 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
- the act of giving something up
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
- the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
- An abandoned building or structure.
- The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
- Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
- The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
- (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
- The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
- The self-surrender to an outside influence.
- A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
- (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
verb
- to surrender someone or something to another
- To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- free from harm or evil
- carry out or perform
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
- hand over to the authorities of another country
- deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
- bring to a destination, make a delivery
- cause to be born
- save from sins
- relinquish possession or control over
- pass down
- To free from or disburden of anything.
- (intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.
- To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
- To set free from restraint or danger.
- To give birth to.
- To discover; to show.
- To assist in the birth of.
- To bring or transport something to its destination.
- (medicine) To administer a drug.
- To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.
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- to surrender someone or something to another
- give back
- cause to become
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
noun
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- to surrender someone or something to another
- make an entrance by turning from a road
- prepare for sleep
- carry out (performances)
- (weaving) To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
- (soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go to bed; to retire to bed.
noun
- The act of entrusting something to someone.
- The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
- The act of perpetrating an offence.
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- the act of committing a crime
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- the act of conceding or yielding
- The act of conceding.
- a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
- a point conceded or yielded
- A preferential tax rate.
- (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- (originally US) An admission of defeat following an election.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concessions stands.
- (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- (chiefly UK) A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- (Canada) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- (chiefly UK) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
- (rhetoric) An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
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- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
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.
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- The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.
- The thing which has been submitted.
- A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.
- A subset or component of a mission.
- the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
- a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case they are arguing
verb
- give back
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- 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
- (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
- getting something back again
- 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.
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- An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
- (law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
- The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
- a verbal act of admitting defeat
- the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- acceptance of despair
verb
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- (ambitransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
- (transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
- (transitive, insurance) For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
- (military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
- (intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
- (transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
- relinquish possession or control over
noun
- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning
- Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
- alternating back-and-forth movement
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of making or doing something in return
verb
- Of other objects: to hand over, give.
- give reluctantly
- Of money: to pay or disburse reluctantly.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble.
- (transitive) To expel from the lungs, throat, stomach, etc. by coughing.
- (idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information.
- discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
noun
- The act of giving something away for free.
- An event at which things are given away for free.
- An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.
- Something that is given away or handed out for free.
- a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group
- an unintentional disclosure
- a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards
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- the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
- an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
- rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
- the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
- (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
- The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
- (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
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- concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
- reduce the estimated value of something
- cancel (a debt)
- write something fluently, and without hesitation
- (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
- (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
- (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).
- (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
- (accounting, transitive) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
- (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
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- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
- (mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- An act of complying.
- (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
- (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
- (uncountable, business) The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
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- (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
- (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
- (transitive or intransitive) To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
- (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- give up or retire from a position
- accept as inevitable
- part with a possession or right
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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- do or give something to somebody in return
- 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 back; to repay.
- (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.
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- giving in acknowledgment of obligation
- perspective drawing of an architect's design
- a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall
- the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
- an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
- a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- Sketch, illustration, or painting.
- (computer graphics) The process of producing an image from an internal model, or the image thus produced.
- Version; translation.
- The act or process by which something is rendered.
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- 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 recompense, to repay.
- 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
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- the act of taking something that is offered
- the state of being acceptable and accepted
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
- the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
- a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
- (government, US) The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
- (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
- (optics) Synonym of etendue.
- The state of being accepted.
- (law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
- The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
- (uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
- Belief in something; agreement, assent.
- (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
- (countable) An instance of that act.
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- The act of ceding something back.
- the act of ceding 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
- 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
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- the act of giving something up
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
- the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
- An abandoned building or structure.
- The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
- Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
- The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
- (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
- The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
- The self-surrender to an outside influence.
- A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
- (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
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- The act of entrusting something to someone.
- The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
- The act of perpetrating an offence.
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- the act of committing a crime
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- the act of conceding or yielding
- The act of conceding.
- a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
- a point conceded or yielded
- A preferential tax rate.
- (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- (originally US) An admission of defeat following an election.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concessions stands.
- (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- (chiefly UK) A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- (Canada) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- (chiefly UK) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
- (rhetoric) An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
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- 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.
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- The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.
- The thing which has been submitted.
- A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.
- A subset or component of a mission.
- the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
- a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case they are arguing
noun
- An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
- (law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
- The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
- a verbal act of admitting defeat
- the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- acceptance of despair
verb
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- (ambitransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
- (transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
- (transitive, insurance) For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
- (military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
- (intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
- (transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
- relinquish possession or control over
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- The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning
- Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
- alternating back-and-forth movement
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of making or doing something in return
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- The act of giving something away for free.
- An event at which things are given away for free.
- An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.
- Something that is given away or handed out for free.
- a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group
- an unintentional disclosure
- a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards
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- the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
- an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
- rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
- the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
- (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
- The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
- (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
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- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
- (mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- An act of complying.
- (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
- (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
- (uncountable, business) The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
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- giving in acknowledgment of obligation
- perspective drawing of an architect's design
- a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall
- the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
- an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
- a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- Sketch, illustration, or painting.
- (computer graphics) The process of producing an image from an internal model, or the image thus produced.
- Version; translation.
- The act or process by which something is rendered.
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- the act of taking something that is offered
- the state of being acceptable and accepted
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
- the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
- a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
- (government, US) The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
- (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
- (optics) Synonym of etendue.
- The state of being accepted.
- (law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
- The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
- (uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
- Belief in something; agreement, assent.
- (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
- (countable) An instance of that act.
verb
- to surrender someone or something to another
- To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- free from harm or evil
- carry out or perform
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
- hand over to the authorities of another country
- deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
- bring to a destination, make a delivery
- cause to be born
- save from sins
- relinquish possession or control over
- pass down
- To free from or disburden of anything.
- (intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.
- To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
- To set free from restraint or danger.
- To give birth to.
- To discover; to show.
- To assist in the birth of.
- To bring or transport something to its destination.
- (medicine) To administer a drug.
- To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.
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- to surrender someone or something to another
- give back
- cause to become
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
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- to surrender someone or something to another
- make an entrance by turning from a road
- prepare for sleep
- carry out (performances)
- (weaving) To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
- (soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go to bed; to retire to bed.
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
verb
- give back
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- 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.
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- (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
- getting something back again
- 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
- Of other objects: to hand over, give.
- give reluctantly
- Of money: to pay or disburse reluctantly.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble.
- (transitive) To expel from the lungs, throat, stomach, etc. by coughing.
- (idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information.
- discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
verb
- concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
- reduce the estimated value of something
- cancel (a debt)
- write something fluently, and without hesitation
- (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
- (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
- (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).
- (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
- (accounting, transitive) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
- (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
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- (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
- (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
- (transitive or intransitive) To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
- (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- give up or retire from a position
- accept as inevitable
- part with a possession or right
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.
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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.
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- do or give something to somebody in return
- 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 back; to repay.
- (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
- 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 recompense, to repay.
- 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
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- An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
- (law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
- The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
- a verbal act of admitting defeat
- the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- acceptance of despair
verb
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- (ambitransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
- (transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
- (transitive, insurance) For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
- (military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
- (intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
- (transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
- relinquish possession or control over