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noun

Rebate n.

1.

Diminution.

2.

(Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.

3.

A portion of a sum paid, returned to the purchaser, as a method of discounting. The rebate is sometimes returned by the manufacturer, after the full price is paid to the retailer by the purchaser.

Rebate n.

1.

(Arch.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.

2.

A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

3.

An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

4.

A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. (R.)

verb

Rebate v. t.

1.

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."

2.

To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.

3.

To return a portion of a sum paid, as a method of discounting of prices.

Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.

Rebate v. t. To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.

Rebate v. i. To abate; to withdraw. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Rebate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... firm three years ago and began to purchase various goods for the Helen Shalley. At first he met all bills promptly and never asked for any rebate or commission. That ...

— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.

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— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... vegetable, and a glass of beer each, for thirty-five cents for both. Saturdays we hunted for different smaller out-of-the-way restaurants. Wednesday nights "Uncle K." of the University of Wisconsin always came to supper, bringing a thirty-five-cent rebate his landlady allowed him when he ate out; and we had chicken every Wednesday night, which cost—a fat one—never more than fifty cents. (It was Uncle K. who wrote, "The world is so different with Carl gone!") Once we rented bicycles and ...

— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... whose boats ply the Great Lakes that clergymen and Indians may travel on its boats for half-fare. A short time ago an agent of the company was approached by an Indian preacher from Canada, who asked for free transportation on the ground that he was entitled to one-half rebate because he was an Indian, and the other half because ...

— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

... labor in order to gain access to the South American markets when we have fairly tried the effect of established and reliable steam communication and of convenient methods of money exchanges. There can be no doubt, I think, that with these facilities well established and with a rebate of duties upon imported raw materials used in the manufacture of goods for export our merchants will be able to compete in the ports of the Latin-American nations with those of ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison

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