Rebate



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.折扣, 回扣
• ［英］ n.折扣, 回扣 ( a return of a part of a payment)
• ［记］ re ( 重新) ＋bate ( 走) -> 重新走回去的 ( 钱) -> 回扣;
• ［同］ 参考: abate ( 减轻)
• ［例］ The company offered rebates as promotional gimmicks.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (rebated; rebating)

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French rebatre, rabatre to beat back, deduct, from re- + abatre to strike down, from a- (from Latin ad-) + batre to beat, from Latin battuere
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to reduce the force or activity of ; diminish
  • 2. to reduce the sharpness of ; blunt
  • 3.
    • a. to make a rebate of
    • b. to give a rebate to
• intransitive verb
  • to give rebates
• ? rebater noun

II. noun

• Date: 1656
• a return of a part of a payment

III. *chiefly British variant of rabbet

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