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English

Alternative forms

• rabate (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??i?be?t/, /???be?t/

Noun

rebate (plural rebates)

1. A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
2. The return of part of an amount already paid.
3. (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
4. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
5. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
6. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
7. A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

Translations

Further reading

• rebate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rebate in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography

Verb

rebate (third-person singular simple present rebates, present participle rebating, simple past and past participle rebated)

1. (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
2. (transitive) To diminish or lessen something
3. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
4. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
5. To abate; to withdraw.

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Translations

Anagrams

• Bartee, beater, berate, betear, erbate, rebeat

Portuguese

Verb

rebate

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of rebater
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of rebater

Romanian

Etymology

re- +? bate

Verb

a rebate (third-person singular present rebat, past participle reb?tut) 3rd conj.

1. to retype
2. to restrike

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology 1

Verb

rebate

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of rebatir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of rebatir.

Etymology 2

Verb

rebate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rebatar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rebatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rebatar.