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Definitions for returning
re·turn·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. returning, revertingadjective

    tending to return to an earlier state

  2. returning(a), reversiveadjective

    tending to be turned back

Wikipedia

  1. returning

    In retail, a product return is the process of a customer taking previously purchased merchandise back to the retailer, and in turn receiving a refund in the original form of payment, exchange for another item (identical or different), or a store credit.

ChatGPT

  1. returning

    Returning generally refers to the act of coming or going back to a place or situation. It can also mean giving something back to its original holder or place. In computer programming, returning refers to the process of ending execution of the current function and resuming it at the point in the code immediately following where the function was called.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Returning

    of Return

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'returning' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2966

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of returning in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of returning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of returning in a Sentence

  1. Junichi Ishikawa:

    Risk appetite is returning at a faster pace than expected, thanks to the temporary pull back in Russia risk and a well balanced statement from the Fed last week.

  2. Chris Williamson:

    Having enjoyed a mini-boom from consumers returning after the relaxation of pandemic restrictions, many services firms are now seeing households increasingly struggle with the rising cost of living, with producers of non-essential goods seeing a similar drop in orders.

  3. Malcolm Knapp:

    When people work, they eat out more often. Fast-food chains are the first to benefit because (people entering or returning to the workforce) are going to go for the more affordable stuff, it's hard to screw up breakfast ... everything goes well with bacon.

  4. Brian Deese:

    On both taxes and level of public investment, we are returning to levels( and) structures reflected in past periods of progress, the element that is more transformational is the focus on doing public investment in a way that supports everyone.

  5. Alexandra Lo Re:

    The vaccine has been touted as our ticket back to a' normal' society. Many people, however, are anxious about returning to a' normal' society, probably because that idea simply is not possible, we will never return to a world where Covid-19 does not exist.

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