rebate

C2+ Topic:Shopping & Services

US /ˈribeɪt/ UK /ˈriːbeɪt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a partial refund or deduction returned to a buyer

The store offered a fifty-dollar rebate on every new mattress.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a partial refund or... refund discount deduction reduction allowancekickback

Opposites

surchargemarkup

Word family

Related forms abatebate

Etymology

From Old French rabattre ('to beat down, reduce'), from re- + abattre ('to beat down'), from Latin ad- + battuere ('to beat').

rabattre Old French battuere Latin

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Topics

Shopping & Services Word Formation & Derivatives

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# rebate

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈribeɪt/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈriːbeɪt/

## Meanings
1. a partial refund or deduction returned to a buyer

## Examples
- The store offered a fifty-dollar rebate on every new mattress.

## Synonyms
- refund
- discount
- deduction
- reduction
- allowance
- kickback

## Antonyms
- surcharge
- markup

## Related Forms
- abate
- bate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: rabattre
- Root: battuere

## Etymology
From Old French rabattre ('to beat down, reduce'), from re- + abattre ('to beat down'), from Latin ad- + battuere ('to beat').

## AI Etymology
Rebate comes from Old French rabattre ('to beat down, reduce'), from re- + abattre ('to beat down'), from Latin ad- + battuere ('to beat'). The historical chain includes Old French rabattre and Latin battuere. Older glosses in the chain include "to beat down, reduce", "to beat down", and "to beat", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, rebate is best read as compound and borrowing, yielding an English noun and verb shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun and verb, with the sense "a partial refund or deduction returned to a buyer". related forms include abate and bate. The result is an English noun and verb whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- Shopping & Services
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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