RETURNS Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of return

as in restores

to bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place when I'm done reading a book, I always return it to the very shelf I got it from

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as in yields

to produce as revenue this technology stock is expected to return a healthy profit

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as in responds

to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction when I asked him to sit down to dinner, he returned that he would come when he was good and ready

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as in reverts

to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways

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returns

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noun

plural of return

as in responses

something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question I was moved by my grandfather's lengthy return to my casual question about his experiences in the Vietnam War

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as in proceeds

the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received the return on each unit sold has increased since we streamlined the production process

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Recent Examples of returns

Verb

The coven returns in that season, and knowing how Cordelia became the Supreme might be key to the 13th season, as Madison mentions a new Coven leader in one of the teasers. — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2026 Kentucky returns home to Lexington next week to host South Alabama. — Chantz Martin Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Drier weather returns Tuesday and Wednesday, with sunshine and highs in the upper-60s. — Joseph Dames, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026 Ella Bruccoleri returns as the awkward Mary Bennet opposite Dónal Finn as Tom Hayward, who proposed in the Season 1 finale – with Mary accepting. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026 Louder Than Life returns for its 12th year with more than 200 bands performing on seven stages. — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Sep. 2026 Andrew returns home soon after, and the series shows Lizzie striking him in the head with the hatchet before delivering more than 20 additional blows. — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 Forward Karim Adeyemi returns for the first time in 11 months after a positive start at his new club Barcelona, while Ajax's Marc-André ter Stegen is first-choice goalkeeper after Manuel Neuer's international retirement. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 On Monday night at Arrowhead Stadium the league’s true jefe, Patrick Mahomes, returns from a lost season and torn ACL to quarterback the Kansas City Chiefs in an early test against the Broncos, their AFC West rivals. — Michael Silver, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Goodman will show up in person to ask about ticket returns even if a show is listed as sold out. — Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2026 The stock was below its 200 day moving average last week and the normal momentum metrics like % below 52 week highs and trailing returns are all still in the red. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 The rain chance returns on Thursday mostly in western Minnesota. — Joseph Dames, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 The chance of rain returns late Thursday and continues into Friday, especially in eastern Kansas and western Missouri, before spreading into central Missouri over the weekend. — Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026 Time therefore became a critical factor, as market participants first needed to understand the role and implications of partnering with a public investor that shared both risks and returns. — John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026 Carolina also tried some trickery, putting starting wide receiver Jalen Coker back for punt returns. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 20 Sep. 2026 Public finance remains indispensable, particularly for communities and projects that cannot or should not generate commercial returns. — Marcene Mitchell, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026 But, overall, this didn't seem to be primarily a story of rich capitalists investing money and then sitting on their keisters while their capital generated returns for them. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for returns

Verb

The completion of Ronald Reagan’s overhaul restores a major aircraft carrier to the Navy’s available force after an extended period in the shipyard.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
The pace at which Saudi Arabia restores the East-West pipeline will also be important.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of restores

Verb

The recipe yields 4 cups of salty, spicy nuts that can be stored in an airtight container for up to a week.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2026
Higher discount rate High bond yields pressure stocks by increasing the discount rate investors apply to future profits, making those earnings – and therefore the stocks – less valuable today.

— Paulina Likos, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of yields

Verb

Wake Forest ties it up Wake Forest responds with a touchdown of its own.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
Stitched together, these scenes form a meandering narrative that responds to Wilson’s own proclaimed curiosities, but also apertures onto thornier and more existential topics.

— Lila Allen, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of responds

Verb

The lease limits what can be built on the site and once the agreement is complete, ownership reverts back to the Spanglers.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026
The school is owned by the city of Pembroke Pines, and a lease says the property reverts back to the city in 2037.

— Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2026

Definition of reverts

Noun

The company said respondents were selected among internet users in Venezuela and that the survey used geographic quotas and safeguards intended to prevent duplicate responses.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Brown and other firefighters said delayed, disorganized fire responses have become common around the West as staffing thinned since last year's cuts, and as climate change and urban sprawl fuel a changing wildfire landscape.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of responses

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In the meantime, farmers do their best to beef up security – hyperaware that all someone needs to do is cut off a branch from their trees for it to be smuggled away, draining their profits from some distant orchard in another country.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
Using profits from the sale of the Van Dyke, Soyka, converted redesigned a four-block industrial section tucked off Biscayne Boulevard to include his signature Soyka restaurant and Andiamo Brick Oven Pizza across the street.

— Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of profits

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For a house assessed at the county average of $270,000 last year, this year’s county tax bill would increase $58 to $2,165, according to a Miami Herald calculation based on a home that pays county taxes for municipal, fire and library services.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
The federal gas tax pays most of the money that goes into the Highway Trust Fund, according to a Congressional report earlier this year that studied the impact of the federal gas tax.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of pays

Verb

The automation should end when the customer replies, books, declines, becomes unqualified or needs a decision from a person.

— Michael Fox, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
The video then shows Duff taking off her earpiece and saying something to her bandmate, who replies with an unsure gesture.

— Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026