Definition of returns

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• returns is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
• returns is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
• returns is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9

Definition of returns

• the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property (noun)

  Examples

  1. the average return was about 5%

  Synonyms

  1. issue
  2. payoff
  3. proceeds
  4. take
  5. takings
  6. yield
• the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. return key
• document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability (noun)

  Examples

  1. his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return

  Synonyms

  1. income tax return
  2. tax return
• go back to a previous state (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. regress
  2. retrovert
  3. revert
  4. turn back
• elect again (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. reelect
• a coming to or returning home (noun)

  Examples

  1. on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party

  Synonyms

  1. homecoming
• happening again (especially at regular intervals) (noun)

  Examples

  1. the return of spring

  Synonyms

  1. recurrence
• be restored (verb)

  Examples

  1. Her old vigor returned

  Synonyms

  1. come back
• give or supply (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. generate
  2. give
  3. render
  4. yield
• pass down (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. deliver
  2. render
• pay back (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. give back
  2. refund
  3. repay
• go back to something earlier (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. come back
  2. hark back
  3. recall
• getting something back again (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. regaining
  2. restitution
  3. restoration
• bring back to the point of departure (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. bring back
  2. take back
• the act of someone appearing again (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. reappearance
• answer back (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. come back
  2. rejoin
  3. repay
  4. retort
  5. riposte
• give back (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. render
• a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. comeback
  2. counter
  3. rejoinder
  4. replication
  5. retort
  6. riposte
• be inherited by (verb)

  Examples

  1. The land returned to the family

  Synonyms

  1. devolve
  2. fall
  3. pass
• the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. coming back
• a reciprocal group action (noun)

  Examples

  1. in return we gave them as good as we got

  Synonyms

  1. getting even
  2. paying back
• (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble (noun)
• a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player (noun)

  Examples

  1. he won the point on a cross-court return
• go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before (verb)

  Examples

  1. return to your native land
  2. the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean
• make a return (verb)

  Examples

  1. return a kickback
• return in kind (verb)

  Examples

  1. return a compliment
  2. return her love
• return to a previous position; in mathematics (verb)

  Examples

  1. The point returned to the interior of the figure
• submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority (verb)
• the act of going back to a prior location (noun)

  Examples

  1. they set out on their return to the base camp

See definition of returns in Merriam Webster