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rebate
/ˈɹiːbeɪt/
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What does rebate mean?
noun
- A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- The return of part of an amount already paid.
- The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
- A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
verb
- To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
- To diminish or lessen something
- To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
- To abate; to withdraw.
- Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
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IPA pronunciation
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V. discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.
In the national capital it had power to prevent inspection of its product, and to falsify government reports; it violated the rebate laws, and when an investigation was threatened it burned its books and sent its criminal agents out of the country.
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The arc lamp installed outside a customer's premises, or in a circuit for public street lighting, burned so many hours nightly, so many nights in the month; and was paid for at that rate, subject to rebate for hours when the lamp might be out through accident.
Upon his place, And with full line of his authority, Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense; But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge With profits of the mind, study and fast.