refund
noun
- pay back
verb
- pay back
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfʌnd/ / /ˈɹiːfʌnd/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English refunden, refounden, from Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.
- An amount of money returned.
“If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.”
“RDG explains: "From April 1 2026, the following tickets, Anytime, Off-Peak, Day Travelcards and most Ranger and Rover tickets, will no longer be refundable on the day they become valid for travel." It calls the £40m it thinks it loses "refund abuse", which it explains as "refunds on tickets that have been used but not scanned or endorsed, where a customer falsely states that they did not travel". I'm sure such abuse takes place (and that it's done by passengers). But RDG is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut and punishing many millions of honest passengers by making tickets more restrictive.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English refunden, refounden, from Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.
- To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
“If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference.”
“A Governor, that had Pillag'd the People, was […] sentenc'd to Refund what he had Wrongfully Taken.”
- To obtain a refund.
“This game sucks, Imma refund it.”
- To supply (someone) again with funds.
“to refund a railroad loan”
- To pour back (something).
“Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.”
“When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood”