REBATES Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

rebates

noun

plural of rebate

as in discounts

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Recent Examples of rebates Luis Esteves, director of the Irvine Great Park, outlined the new rebates OCPA offered this year, including a $1,000 rebate for home battery storage, up to $1,000 for home EV chargers and free home energy efficiency kits. — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025 According to Shapiro's office, 522,434 rebates totaling more than $319 million were sent to Pennsylvanians who submitted a rebate application in 2024. — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025

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Noun

In order to support the sellers, Wildberries offered discounts on storage fees, the free transfer of goods to other facilities, discounted loans at the Wildberries Bank and other measures.

— Dasha Litvinova, Fortune, 24 July 2026
That's in addition to other discounts anyone can qualify for, like paying in full or insuring more than one car.

— Liz Knueven,Ryley Amond, CNBC, 24 July 2026

Definition of discounts

Noun

Wes Harrell, a broker and head of a trading group at capital markets firm Seaport Global, told Fortune that in these instances, the loan-to-value ratio of potential refunds used as collateral might be about 50%, meaning a $10 million refund claim would only be worth $5 million as a loan.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
Organizers said guests who purchased VIP concert upgrades for Sunday will receive refunds and will be contacted directly with additional details about the refund process.

— CBS Texas Staff, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026

Definition of refunds

Noun

Those came on the back of the two English clubs breaching the governing body’s football earnings rule, which limits the size of financial loss clubs can record, after deductions for ‘good’ expenditure on infrastructure, youth teams and the like.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Tax relief in the form of credits, deductions and other benefits can lower your tax bill.

— Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 20 July 2026

Definition of deductions

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The company still expects capital expenditures in excess of $25 billion this year, and executives are now predicting even larger outlays going forward.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
The All-America survey finds that 60% of those with incomes below $30,000 are reducing their outlays for essentials, compared with just 35% of those with incomes above $100,000.

— Steve Liesman, CNBC, 17 July 2026

Definition of outlays

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Meanwhile, hyperscalers have been committing hundreds of billions of dollars a year on capital expenditures to build out AI infrastructure as quickly as possible.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 July 2026
Management now expects to spend between $195 billion and $205 billion on capital expenditures this year and signaled spending will rise again in 2027.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 25 July 2026

Definition of expenditures

Noun

Reasonable people can disagree over whether capital gains should receive preferential tax treatment as against wages, whether the top marginal rate is too high, too low, or merely poorly designed.

— Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
The group also sought union-standard wages and benefits, as well as changes to working conditions.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026

Definition of wages

Noun

As for the college game, there is no public list of salaries so information is harder to pin down.

— Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Last week, health workers at Bunia General Hospital, the region’s largest medical center, had already gone on strike over unpaid salaries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

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