An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
Gain or loss from an investment.
(taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
(American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
(architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
“The swishes became more frequent, the returnings almost doubling on their track.”
“It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.”
“God did strike them with Egyptian and Babylonish rods, but there were no tears, no relentings, no returnings, but grew harder and harder, even to a rockish hardiness.”
