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palautus — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abandonment noun The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, or the state of having been left that way.
  • credit noun Recognition or praise given for something a person has done.
  • drawback noun A disadvantage or downside to something otherwise good.
  • rebate noun A partial refund given after a purchase or payment.
  • reduction noun The act of making something smaller, or the amount by which it has been decreased.
  • refund verb To give back money that someone has paid.
  • retrieve verb To get something back, especially something that was lost, stored, or left somewhere.
  • return verb To come or go back to a place, or to give something back to its owner.
  • submission noun The act of giving in or yielding to someone else's authority or control.

Senses

palautus is used for these senses in English:

  • abandonment A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
  • credit (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
  • drawback A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
  • drawback The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette, viewed as a skill of the practised smoker.
  • rebate The return of part of an amount already paid.
  • reduction (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
  • refund An amount of money returned.
  • retrieve (sports) The return of a difficult ball

abandonment — full definition

  1. noun The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, or the state of having been left that way.
  2. noun In law, the formal giving up of a right, claim, or piece of property.

credit — full definition

  1. noun Recognition or praise given for something a person has done.
  2. noun An arrangement allowing a buyer to pay for goods or services later, or a bank to lend money.
  3. verb To add money to an account.
  4. verb To believe something, or to attribute an achievement to someone.

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