A Return

1. The act of returning.
2. A return ticket.
3. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
4. An answer.
5. 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.
6. Gain or loss from an investment.
7. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
8. (computing) A carriage return character.
9. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
10. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
11. A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant).
12. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
13. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
14. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
15. (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.

Synonyms

• (the act of returning): gaincoming