return to

return to (someone, something, or some place)

1. To go or travel back to some place or thing. I'd love to return to Japan someday. She has to return to the shop because she forgot to buy milk.
2. To resume some activity or endeavor. I wish you would return to writing. You have such a natural talent for it! I'm dreading returning to work on Monday.
3. To resume a romantic relationship with someone. Sarah returned to her husband after being separated from him for nearly a year. I don't understand why Tom keeps returning to her after she mistreats him like that time and time again.
4. To give someone or something back to another person or thing. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "return" and "to." Make sure you return this book to me soon—I need it for my research paper. The police returned the missing girl to her parents.
5. To put something back in its proper location. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "return" and "to." He examined the people in the picture and then returned it to the mantelpiece. The principal said she was giving the thieves 24 hours to return the school's mascot to its display case before she pursued a criminal investigation.
See also: return, to
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return someone or something to someone

to give someone or something back to someone. Please return my tools to me. Would you return my book to me soon?
See also: return, to
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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I was fortunate, I think, to return to Phutra at all.
The guards in whose hands I now found myself, upon hearing that I had returned of my own volition to Phutra evidently felt that it would be safe to give me liberty within the building as had been the custom before I had escaped, and so I was told to return to whatever duty had been mine formerly.
And to think that I was risking death to return to him purely from a sense of duty and affection!
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As nasopharyngeal carriage is the primary source of transmission (13), worldwide dissemination is thought to be due to pilgrims who acquired W135 carriage during the pilgrimage and introduced the strain on return to their countries of origin (14).
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For practical purposes, the IRS could conduct a very limited scope audit to pick up known adjustments or check the return to ensure the taxpayer incorporated rollover/recurring issue results into subsequent tax returns.
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If this result is achieved, the assets are generating a sufficient return to fund the company's guaranteed product obligations by assuming risk commensurate with the risk profile of the product liabilities.
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I recommend a return to the specialty retailing operations of 30 years ago - at least for high-priced consumer electronics.
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He was reassured that with a return to work porgram now in effect, some kind of light work would be found for him.
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94-69 are intended to alert the IRS to one or more problem items or positions taken on the return to be examined, with the taxpayer maintaining (at least at the outset of the examination) that its return treatment of the item is correct.
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If the government used an accrual-based accounting system, the CBO estimates federal income taxes would have to jump 25 percent for the government to return to fiscal balance.
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any failure that does not prevent or hinder the Internal Revenue Service from processing the return, from correlating the information required to be shown on the return with the information shown on the payee's tax return, or from otherwise putting the return to its intended use.
Comments on proposed information reporting penalty regulations
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