refunded; refunding; refunds
1
: to give or put back
2
: to return (money) in restitution, repayment, or balancing of accounts
Examples of refund in a Sentence
Verb (1)
will refund you your money
Noun
No refunds or exchanges are allowed.
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Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 1 May 2025
Taken together, any auto tariff changes would be retroactive, allowing automakers to be refunded for prior tariffs paid that would no longer be in effect, according to the WSJ.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2025
Susan Tompor, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
And a losing wager of $50 or more in other states will trigger five bonus bets as a refund, making each one worth 20 percent of the loss.
21+ and present in participating states.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Andrade has said that Florida’s accounting ledger shows the DeSantis administration is refunding the federal government its share of the settlement based on the full $67 million.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 1 May 2025
Taken together, any auto tariff changes would be retroactive, allowing automakers to be refunded for prior tariffs paid that would no longer be in effect, according to the WSJ.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
One simple phone call set off a scheme that ultimately enabled someone to steal her entire income tax refund and drain her savings account at a local credit union.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
And a losing wager of $50 or more in other states will trigger five bonus bets as a refund, making each one worth 20 percent of the loss.
21+ and present in participating states.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
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“Refund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/refund. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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refund
2 of 3 noun
re·fund
ˈrē-ˌfənd 
1
: the act of refunding
2
: an amount of money refunded
refund
3 of 3 verb
re·fund
(ˈ)rē-ˈfənd
: to fund a debt again
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