return
A1Frequent NGSL-1UK /rɪˈtɜːn/US /rɪˈtɜːrn/
Meaning
noun
the action of arriving in or coming back to a place that you were in before
“return of somebody to…, A week had passed since their return to Geneva. ”
verb
to come or go back from one place to another
“I waited a long time for him to return.”
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“and you start getting diminishing returns.”
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“to make something that's going to return”
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“I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk”
📺 Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement AddressLearn this word in the video →
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