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Antonyms for rebate

Grammar : Noun
Spell : noun ree-beyt; verb ree-beyt, ri-beyt
Phonetic Transcription : noun ˈri beɪt; verb ˈri beɪt, rɪˈbeɪt

Definition of rebate

Origin :
  • late 14c., "to reduce;" early 15c., "to deduct, subtract," from Old French rabattre "beat down, drive back," also "deduct," from re- "repeatedly" (see re-) + abattre "beat down" (see abate). Meaning "to pay back (a sum) as a rebate" is from 1957. Related: Rebated; rebating.
  • noun refund given to purchaser
Example sentences :
  • They closed with a rebate in the jambs and against the raised threshold.
  • Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen
  • When I went to get my rebate I was offered one pound eleven shillings.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee in the Far East » by George Hoyt Allen
  • Tell Hankins to draw a check for the rebate in full and bring it in to me.
  • Extract from : « Cappy Ricks Retires » by Peter B. Kyne
  • If you want to make your policy 182 unassailable, you must refund that rebate.
  • Extract from : « The Best Policy » by Elliott Flower
  • If he is, he becomes entitled to a rebate of this amount on his subsequent purchases.
  • Extract from : « Village Life in China » by Arthur H. Smith
  • If I were you, I shouldn't apply for total exemption, but for a rebate.
  • Extract from : « Joanna Godden » by Sheila Kaye-Smith
  • I'm going to pay you twenty-five thousand, and you rebate me fifteen of it.
  • Extract from : « Smoke Bellew » by Jack London
  • You know what the rebate is, and you can imagine the part which that plays.
  • Extract from : « The Moneychangers » by Upton Sinclair
  • He had been very clear in his mind when that letter came from Euphemia Smith that he would not now make any rebate.
  • Extract from : « John Caldigate » by Anthony Trollope
  • Then well thresh out the letters and the rebate question, if I have the cross-examining of you.
  • Extract from : « The Boss of Wind River » by David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

Synonyms for rebate

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