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Definition of Rebate
1. Noun. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
2. Verb. Give a reduction in the price during a sale. "The store is rebating refrigerators this week"
3. Noun. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together.
4. Verb. Cut a rebate in (timber or stone).
5. Verb. Join with a rebate. "Rebate the pieces of timber and stone"
Definition of Rebate
1. v. t. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
2. v. i. To abate; to withdraw.
3. n. Diminution.
4. n. A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
5. v. t. To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet,
Definition of Rebate
1. Noun. A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement ¹
2. Noun. The return of part of an amount already paid ¹
3. Noun. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To diminish or lessen something ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rebate
1. to deduct or return from a payment or bill [v -BATED, -BATING, -BATES]
Medical Definition of Rebate
1. 1. A restangular 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. [Perhaps a different word] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. See: Rabbet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebate
Literary usage of Rebate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
""The excess rate of 25 cents will be refunded to passengers upon surrender of
the original rebate ticket to any ticket agent within the state of South ..."
2. The Schoolmaster's Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, Both by Thomas Dilworth (1825)
"As that sum : Is to the fourth number : So is the siven Sum : To the rebate. .3.
As that Sum : Is to 100/ : So is the given Sum : To the present Payment. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1888)
"We should direct our attention to the rebate system, and I believe we could evolve
some plan out of that which shall be honorable to the manufacturer, ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"Delay in Paying rebate on Coal Duty at Cardiff. Мк. BRYNMOR JONES (Swansea
District) : To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"rebate equal to cartage charges is discriminative. ... Such a rebate is prohibited
by section two as a discrimination between shippers.54 Sec. 546. ..."
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