returned
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtəːnd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtɝnd/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: re‧turned
Adjective
returned (comparative more returned, superlative most returned)
- Bent back; angled. [from 15th c.]
- That has come back. [from 16th c.]
- (finance) Yielded as a return on an investment etc. [From 17th c.]
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Back home having been discharged from military service. [from 19th c.]
- 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38:
- There are about thirty full-blooded returned men in this state whom I believe are not entitled to the old-age pension.
- 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38:
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