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rebate

[ree-bayt, ree-bayt, ri-bayt] / ˈri beɪt, ˈri beɪt, rɪˈbeɪt /


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The risk is compounded by the elimination in 2021 of a rebate program that allowed tourists to reclaim the value-added tax they paid on souvenirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Long said he wanted a rebate as he had been required to pay council tax since moving in and despite disposing of rubbish in skips provided by the estate developer.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

IDEX, which sells pumps and valves to a range of industries, said it expected to rebate $14.7 million to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The government also said that 345,000 Scottish low-income households would now automatically receive the rebate in the winter, bringing Scotland's policy in line with England and Wales.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

He worked among a class of people who knew little of insurance or insurance laws and who are in the habit of figuring very closely, and this rebate proposition looked pretty good to them.

From The Best Policy by Elliott Flower

Under the program, the permitting approval process for outdoor seating will be shortened and application fees will be waived or rebated.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020

The state of Oklahoma issues the plates and registrations for the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations and a portion of the fees the state collects are then rebated back to the tribes.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2018

One was a program related to robo-adviser unit Amerivest that rebated some fees for new clients whose portfolios performed poorly.

From Reuters ● Dec. 6, 2016

Intelligence officials say that the oil is often sold at rebated prices on the black market to traders, businessmen and smugglers through porous borders across northern Syria and western Iraq.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2014

In this and similar cases the side rails are rebated as shown in the section, and the bottom rail is thinner than the side rails to allow the glass to finish level upon it.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham

UnitedHealth plans to return profits from the Affordable Care Act marketplace to consumers by voluntarily eliminating and rebating profits this year.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Sales have steadily declined since hitting $19.14 billion world-wide in 2015, however, partly because insurers have limited use to the dwindling supply of the sickest patients and Gilead has increased rebating to cope with competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2018

“As much as the drugmakers complain about the rebating scheme, they’ve grown as dependent on its subterfuge, opacity and inequity as everyone else in the system,” he wrote.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017

It would also create a detailed program for rebating those revenues to economically vulnerable populations who would be adversely affected by the subsequent hit to the fossil fuel industries.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2015

The one great accomplishment of the Commission, I think, in the last three years, has been the enforcement of the law as against rebating.

From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Louise Herrick Wall

An existing bill offering tax rebates on fiber-optic equipment was hastily rewritten to provide tax breaks on data center gear.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

But with rebates flowing, counterparties are now suing some of these companies for pocketing those higher costs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

The subsidies and rebates offered by some local governments may not be enough to offset the cost of the switch.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The rebates are available only to first-time EV buyers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Favoritism, discrimination, rebates, were the life of railway trade, and railway managers objected to them only because they endangered profits, not because they felt any obligation to maintain uniformity in charges.

From The New Nation by William E. Dodd




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