refund

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Middle English refunden, refounden, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭfŭnd', IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfʌnd/

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• enPR: rē'fŭnd', IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːfʌnd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnd

Verb

refund (third-person singular simple present refunds, present participle refunding, simple past and past participle refunded)

1. (transitive) 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.

   • L'Estrange

     A governor, that had pillaged the people, was […] sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To supply again with funds.

   to refund a railroad loan

3. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To pour back.
   • Ray

     Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.

Translations

to return (money) to (someone)

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հատուցել (hy) (hatucʻel), փոխհատուցել (hy) (pʻoxhatucʻel), ծախսահատուցել (caxsahatucʻel)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 退款 (tuìkuǎn), 退錢／退钱 (zh) (tuìqián), 退钱 (zh) (tuìqián), 償還／偿还 (zh) (chánghuán), 偿还 (zh) (chánghuán)

• Danish: refundere
• Esperanto: repagi
• Finnish: hyvittää (fi), palautt, maksaa takaisin
• French: rembourser (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: erstatten (de), zurückerstatten
• Greek: επιστρέφω χρήματα (epistréfo chrímata)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: megtérít (hu), visszatérít (hu), visszafizet (hu)
• Irish: aisíoc
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: rimborsare (it), rifondere, ripagare (it), restituire (it)
• Japanese: 払い戻す (はらいもどす, haraimodosu), 返金する (へんきんする, henkin suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: aayioold, aayeeil
• Maori: whakahoki moni
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: reembolsar (pt)
• Romanian: rambursa (ro), compensa (ro)
• Russian: компенси́ровать (ru) (kompensírovatʹ), возмеща́ть (ru) (vozmeščátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìol
• Spanish: reembolsar (es), devolver (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: ཕྱིར་སློག་བྱས་ (phyir slog byas)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Noun

refund (plural refunds)

1. 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.

Translations

amount of money returned

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: إِعَادَة مَال f (ʾiʿādat māl)
• Armenian: հատուցում (hy) (hatucʻum), փոխհատուցում (hy) (pʻoxhatucʻum), ծախսահատուցում (caxsahatucʻum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 退款 (tuìkuǎn)

• Dutch: teruggave (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hyvitys (fi), takaisinmaksu (fi), palautus (fi), maksupalautus
• French: remboursement (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Erstattung (de) f, Rückerstattung (de) f, Rückzahlung (de) f
• Greek: επιστροφή χρημάτων f (epistrofí chrimáton)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: visszatérítés (hu), pénzvisszatérítés, pénzvisszafizetés, visszaadott pénz
• Irish: aisíoc m
• Italian: rimborso (it) m
• Japanese: 払い戻し (はらいもどし, haraimodoshi), 返金 (へんきん, henkin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 환불금 (hwanbulgeum)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakahokinga moni
• Marathi: paratkarne
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: reembolso (pt) m
• Romanian: rambursare (ro)
• Russian: компенса́ция (ru) f (kompensácija), возмеще́ние (ru) n (vozmeščénije), возвращённая су́мма f (vozvraščónnaja súmma) (sum returned)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìoladh m
• Spanish: reembolso (es)
• Swedish: återbetalning (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: geri ödemek
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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