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What does give back mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word give back? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.).
  2. (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success.
  3. (archaic) To recede; to retreat.
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People need to replant what has been uprooted and give back what has been taken away.
In his laboratory, over the years he hosted a large number of young American postdocs, out of a wish to give back something of what America had given to him.
It is going to be a five-year project and I want to give back whatever I can to Swedish junior tennis.
Music has given Sudha plenty in life and she plans to give back to it some in her own special way.
I looked at him when he mouthed his insult to me, and all I could muster to give back was a weak smile that was aiming to be snide.
I got so into the article that I wanted to give back to underprivileged children.

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