What does "rebate" mean?
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
Rebate
/ˈɹiːbeɪt/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- Grammar: rebate is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: discount, rabbet, abate, abatement.
- Useful contrasts: agio, fill, full price.
- Usage evidence: He gave me a ten thousand yen rebate.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- 2 a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together wordnet
- 3 The return of part of an amount already paid.
- 4 a refund of some fraction of the amount paid wordnet
- 5 The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
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- 6 A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
"For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap."
- 7 A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- 8 An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- 9 A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
Verb
- 1 To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment transitive
- 2 join with a rebate wordnet
- 3 To diminish or lessen something transitive
- 4 cut a rebate in (timber or stone) wordnet
- 5 To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
"But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge."
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- 6 give a reduction in the price during a sale wordnet
- 7 To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something transitive
- 8 To abate; to withdraw.
"he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery"
- 9 Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate². intransitive
"The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]"
Example
"He gave me a ten thousand yen rebate."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "rebate"?
Common synonyms include: discount, rabbet, abate, abatement, agio, allow.
How do you use "rebate" in a sentence?
He gave me a ten thousand yen rebate.
How do you pronounce "rebate"?
Pronounced /ˈɹiːbeɪt/.
Etymology
From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.