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| NOUN: | 1. Something earned, won, or otherwise acquired: earnings, gain, profit. See GET, MONEY. 2. A repeated occurrence: reappearance, recurrence, reoccurrence. See REPETITION. | | VERB: | 1. To speak or act in response, as to a question: answer, rejoin, reply, respond, retort, riposte. See ASK. 2. To give or take mutually: reciprocate, requite. See CONNECT. 3. To bring back into existence or use: reestablish, reinstate, reintroduce, renew, restore, revive. See INCREASE, KEEP. 4. To put (someone) in the possession of a prior position or office: give back, reinstate, replace, restore. See INCREASE, KEEP. 5. To come back to a former condition: recrudesce, recur, reoccur, revert. See REPETITION. 6. To deliver (an indictment or verdict, for example): hand down, render. See LAW. 7. To go again to a former place: come back, go back, revisit. See APPROACH. 8. To make as income or profit: bring in, clear, draw, earn, gain, gross, net2, pay, produce, realize, repay, yield. See MONEY. 9. To send, put, or carry back to a former location: give back, restore, take back. See INCREASE, KEEP.
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