What does return mean?

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[n] document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability(his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return)[v] go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before(return to your native land the professor returned to his teaching

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[n] document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
(his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return)

[v] go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
(return to your native land the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean)

[n] a coming to or returning home
(on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party)

[v] give back
(render money)

[n] the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction

[v] go back to a previous state
(We reverted to the old rules)

[n] getting something back again
(upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing)

[v] go back to something earlier
(This harks back to a previous remark of his)

[n] the act of going back to a prior location
(they set out on their return to the base camp)

[v] bring back to the point of departure

[n] the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
(the average return was about 5%)

[v] return in kind
(return a compliment return her love)

[n] happening again (especially at regular intervals)
(the return of spring)

[v] make a return
(return a kickback)

[n] a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
(it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher)

[v] answer back

[n] the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed

[v] be restored
(Her old vigor returned)

[n] a reciprocal group action
(in return we gave them as good as we got)

[v] pay back
(Please refund me my money)

[n] a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
(he won the point on a cross-court return)

[v] pass down
(render a verdict deliver a judgment)

[n] (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble

[v] elect again

[n] the act of someone appearing again
(his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited)

[v] be inherited by
(The estate fell to my sister The land returned to the family The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead)

[v] return to a previous position; in mathematics
(The point returned to the interior of the figure)

[v] give or supply
(The cow brings in 5 liters of milk This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn The estate renders some revenue for the family)

[v] submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
(submit a bill to a legislative body)

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.