GIVE BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give back mean? 

• GIVE BACK (verb)
  The verb GIVE BACK has 1 sense:

1. pay back

  Familiarity information: GIVE BACK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pay back

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

give back; refund; repay; return

Context example:

Please refund me my money

Hypernyms (to "give back" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give back"):

reimburse (pay back for some expense incurred)

restitute; restore (give or bring back)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

Ah! they have struck down the tall leader, and the others give back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have seen what I've got heer; putting his hand on where the little packet lay; all that troubles me is, to think that any harm might come to me, afore that money was give back.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)