Pronunciations (3)
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/ɹɪˈfʌnd/
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/ˈɹiːfʌnd/
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ɹɪˈfʌnd
Verb
To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
Usage- Transitive
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The shop will refund the full amount.
If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference.
A Governor, that had Pillag'd the People, was […] sentenc'd to Refund what he had Wrongfully Taken.
More examples (1)
Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.
To obtain a refund.
Usage- Colloquial
- Transitive
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This game sucks, Imma refund it.
To supply (someone) again with funds.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
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to refund a railroad loan
To pour back (something).
Usage- Obsolete
- Rare
- Transitive
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Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.
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When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood
Noun
An amount of money returned.
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I received a refund for the broken lamp.
If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.
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RDG explains: "From April 1 2026, the following tickets, Anytime, Off-Peak, Day Travelcards and most Ranger and Rover tickets, will no longer be refundable on the day they become valid for travel." It calls the £40m it thinks it loses "refund abuse", which it explains as "refunds on tickets that have been used but not scanned or endorsed, where a customer falsely states that they did not travel". I'm sure such abuse takes place (and that it's done by passengers). But RDG is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut and punishing many millions of honest passengers by making tickets more restrictive.
Noun
money returned to a payer
- Broader terms
the act of returning money received previously
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- Broader terms
Verb
pay back
- Broader terms
- Examples
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Please refund me my money