rebate

Plural: rebates

Noun

• a refund of some fraction of the amount paid
• a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together
• A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
• The return of part of an amount already paid.
• The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
• A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
• A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
• An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
• A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

Verb

Verb Forms: rebated, rebating, rebates

• To deduct or return a partial amount from a payment.
• give a reduction in the price during a sale
• cut a rebate in (timber or stone)
• join with a rebate
  • "rebate the pieces of timber and stone"
• To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
• To diminish or lessen something
• To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
• To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
• To abate; to withdraw.
• Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².

Examples

• The game didn’t rebate points for challenged words, much to his dismay.

Synonyms

discount, rabbet

Anagrams of rebate