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refund
/ɹɪˈfʌnd/
verb 4noun 1
Collocations
3(verb.)
ADV
in full
If you're not satisfied with your purchase, the store will refund your money in full.
promptly
PREP
to
When I returned the broken phone, the store refunded the money to my account within five days.
Definitions
verb
1
To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
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.
2
To obtain a refund.
This game sucks, Imma refund it.
3
To supply (someone) again with funds.
to refund a railroad loan
4
To pour back (something).
Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.
When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage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
1
An amount of money returned.
If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference.
Wiktionary02
A Governor, that had Pillag'd the People, was […] sentenc'd to Refund what he had Wrongfully Taken.
Wiktionary03
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 friendli
Wiktionary04
If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.
Wiktionary05
I lost my receipt. Can I still get a refund?
Tatoeba · #2952006
Sarah demanded that she be given a refund.
Tatoeba · #53968Usage Notes
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