refund

Definition

To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.

Etymology

From Middle English refunden, refounden, from Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.

Example Sentences

• "If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference."
• "A Governor, that had Pillag'd the People, was […] sentenc'd to Refund what he had Wrongfully Taken."
• "Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext."