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IN RETURN
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(often followed by 'for') in exchange or in reciprocation
Example:
we get many benefits in return for our taxes
Synonyms:
in return; reciprocally
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Context examples:
Now, if your friends have any gratitude, they will say something pretty loud about you and me in return; but I cannot stay to hear it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But, in return, your sister must allow me to feel no more than I profess.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Also in return for his great kindness in the hour of affliction any one of my artistic works he likes, Noter Dame is the best.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He drank her very-good health, and in return she drank his.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return," said Lord John.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He led at Berks’s head, as he came rushing in, and missed him, receiving a severe body blow in return, which left the imprint of four angry knuckles above his ribs.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Mr. Holmes,” she said—and her white-gloved hands clasped and unclasped as she spoke—“I will speak frankly to you in the hopes that it may induce you to speak frankly in return.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Let me pay you one in return when I say that if I were assured of the former eventuality I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept the latter.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasions for teasing and quarrelling with you as often as may be; and I shall begin directly by asking you what made you so unwilling to come to the point at last.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She knew not how such an offence as hers might be classed by the laws of worldly politeness, to what a degree of unforgivingness it might with propriety lead, nor to what rigours of rudeness in return it might justly make her amenable.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
