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rebate

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


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Discounts: Many premium credit cards will rebate the fee.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Walmart, the US's largest retailer, said the nearly $3bn in tariff rebate it anticipated would help it continue a programme of price cuts or "rollbacks" that it expanded earlier this year, external.

From BBC Aug. 20, 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

First-time electric vehicle buyers in California can now snag a $3,500 instant rebate on new EVs made by Tesla, Hyundai or Lucid.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Out of the nine hundred coats sold one was brought back for credit, while another was brought in by a customer who wanted to keep the coat but thought that she might get a rebate.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

And they didn’t get any of their taxes rebated.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2021

Yes, it would involve taxing all electric power, but some of that could be rebated based on average per-home power usage before electric vehicles became popular.

From Washington Post Mar. 25, 2021

A better idea would be a market-based carbon tax, with revenue rebated to consumers.

From Washington Times Aug. 22, 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

This, as its name implies, amounted to one-fifth of the seigneury's value; but it rarely accrued, and even when it did the generous monarch usually rebated a part or all of it.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro

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

The state is also seeing lots more people buying used EVs, and lawmakers have approved millions in state incentives to replace lost federal rebates.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

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

Rival retailer Target recently said it had received $1bn in rebates, boosting its profits.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Cut the rebates in the side pieces into which these pieces are to rest their ends.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor




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