Definition of "rebate"

rebate

/ˈɹiːbeɪt/

noun
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.
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  For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.
  2014 September 11, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: The dangers of abestos roofs ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎
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.
verb
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.
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  But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iv]
  Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart,With all his strength, the youth directs his dart:But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound,The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.
  1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XI
4. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
5. To abate; to withdraw.
  Quotations
  he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery
  1563 March 30, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […]
6. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate2.
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  The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]
  1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans

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