refund

refund noun compensation, cut, discount, money back, payment for expenses, rebate, recompense, recoupment, reduction, refundment, repayment, replacement, restitution, return, satisfaction, settlement

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refund verb adjust, compensate, dissolvere, give back, honor a claim, indemnify, make amends, make commensation, make good, make restitution, pay back, rebate, recompense, reddere, redeem, reimburse, repay, replace, requite, restore, return, satisfy, settle, square

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See also: bear the expense, compensate, consideration, defray, discharge, indemnify, indemnity, payment, quit, rebate, reciprocate, recompense, recoup, reimburse, reimbursement, remunerate, repay, replace, replacement, restitution, restore, return

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TO REFUND. To pay back by the party who has received it, to the party who has paid it, money which ought not to have been paid.
     2. On a deficiency of assets, executors and administrators cum testamento annexo, are entitled to have refunded to them legacies which they may have paid, or so much as may be necessary. to pay the debts of the testator; and in order to insure this, they are generally authorized to require a refunding bond. Vide 8 Vin. Ab. 418; 18 In Vin. Ab. 273; Bac. Ab. Legacies, H.