Examples of rebate in a Sentence
Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
The Oak Lawn Village Board this week unanimously approved a 12-year economic incentive agreement with the Nissan dealership, at 4300 W. 95th St., that would rebate some of the sales taxes the village otherwise would receive, beginning Jan. 1.
—Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
To encourage more participation in a similar program, the government recently doubled the discount for repairs of household appliances, rebating up to €90 ($99) for fixing a computer.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2023
To induce dealerships to remain and expand in Oak Lawn, the village has agreed to rebate some of the sales taxes customers pay.
—Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
Purvis expects there will be pushback from drug companies to rebate penalties, but AARP is poised to defend the new law.
—Megan Farrer, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
Like Thurow, Carter would rebate his consumption tax to low-income people, but Carter’s plan is appallingly stingy; the rebate brings families only up to the federal poverty threshold, which is currently $30,000 for a family of four.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2023
To induce Napleton, officially known as Fran Napleton Lincoln Inc., to make the improvements, Oak Lawn has agreed to rebate up to $225,000 of the sales tax the dealership generates each year over a 12-year period.
—Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2023
Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, and Oklahoma tax groceries at the ordinary sales tax rate but provide a credit or rebate to lower-income households intended to offset the tax burden.
—John Sharp, al, 17 Apr. 2023
Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2023
Through the end of September, Olin Winchester even offered a mail-in rebate.
—Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
Fueled in no small part by an across-the-board 30% tax rebate for international productions, with an additional 10% bonus to projects that partner with local VFX houses, the French production industry has surged in recent years.
—Carole Horst, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
The department automatically sends a rebate if a person qualifies.
—Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2023
Grumbach reports that the state is sending out tax rebates ahead of Tuesday’s election.
—Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
If Congress were to make PBMs subtract rebates from drug prices at the pharmacy counter, government premium subsidies would go up.
—John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 27 Oct. 2023
And one key part of that act was some pretty remarkable rebates for low and moderate income households.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
Among them were a host of large soundstages available for the production’s nearly three-month shoot, a world-class crew base, competitive production costs and a 30% cash rebate.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Verb
Middle English, from Anglo-French rebatre, rabatre to beat back, deduct, from re- + abatre to strike down, from a- (from Latin ad-) + batre to beat, from Latin battuere
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Noun
1656, in the meaning defined above
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