Rebate

['riːbeɪt] or ['ribet]

Definition

(noun.) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid.

(verb.) join with a rebate; 'rebate the pieces of timber and stone'.

(verb.) cut a rebate in (timber or stone).

(verb.) give a reduction in the price during a sale; 'The store is rebating refrigerators this week'.

Editor: Rosalie--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

(v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.

(v. i.) To abate; to withdraw.

(n.) Diminution.

(n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.

(n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.

(n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

(n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

(n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

(v. t.) To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.

Typist: Pierce

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Diminish, lessen, reduce, abate, bate.

n. (Com.) Discount, allowance, deduction, reduction, drawback, abatement.

Edited by Leopold

Definition

v.t. (Shak.) to beat to obtuseness to blunt: to beat back: to allow as discount.—n. Rēbāte′ment deduction: diminution: narrowing: (her.) a shortening as of one arm of a cross.

n. same as Rabate—also a hard freestone used in pavements: wood fastened to a handle in beating mortar.

Checker: Tina