[rɪˈtəːn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- come or go back to a place or person
(e.g: he returned to America in the late autumn)

- give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person
(e.g: complete the application form and return it to this address)

- yield or make (a profit)
(e.g: the company returned a profit of £4.3 million)

- (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office
(e.g: the city of Glasgow returned eleven Labour MPs)

- continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles


Phrases:
- by return of post
- in return
- many happy returns
- return thanks

Origin:
Middle English: the verb from Old French returner, from Latin re- ‘back’ + tornare ‘to turn’; the noun via Anglo-Norman French

[rɪˈtəːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act of coming or going back to a place or activity
(e.g: he celebrated his safe return from the war)

- a profit from an investment
(e.g: product areas are being developed to produce maximum returns)

- an official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand
(e.g: census returns)

- election to office
(e.g: I campaigned for the return of forty-four MPs)

- a mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line

- a part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening


Phrases:
- by return of post
- in return
- many happy returns
- return thanks

Origin:
Middle English: the verb from Old French returner, from Latin re- ‘back’ + tornare ‘to turn’; the noun via Anglo-Norman French