Un remboursement ou une déduction d'argent, une rainure britannique de menuiserie et l'action de la tailler, avec des emplois anciens pour affaiblir une force ou un tranchant.
Issu de formes du moyen anglais et de l'anglo-français rabattre ou rebatre, au sens de repousser, abaisser ou déduire, à partir de re- et abatre.
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Maple Kiwi
Sep 25
Tiny grammar thing I see learners do: you claim a rebate, get a rebate, qualify for a rebate. You dont usually "buy a rebate"
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Scarlet Robin
Sep 24
Spanish brain warning: rebaja is a sale markdown, reembolso is refund. I keep wanting rebate to mean rebaja and it is only sometimes close
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Fond Panther
Sep 17
dont assume a rebate check is a bank check. some stores mean a paper barcode you can only spend back in that store
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Rustic Sparrow
Sep 12
In US taxes I hear refund for the normal annual thing. rebate feels more like a special credit, stimulus payment, property-tax program, that sort of bucket
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Teal Newt
Sep 8
the joinery meaning threw me so hard. I came for money back and suddenly there was a window frame
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Fleet Caribou
Sep 7
Woodworking search tip: if you are in the US and search for a rebate bit, half the useful results may be hiding under rabbet bit. In the UK it goes the other way round, rebate plane, rebate joint, rebated frame.
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Breezy Chipmunk
Sep 7
"instant rebate" is the confusing label, because at the till it behaves like a discount. marketing departments love making the clean words dirty
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Snowy Kiwi
Sep 3
In supplier contracts this can be more specific than an ordinary discount. A wholesaler might pay list price all quarter, hit a volume target, then get a 3 percent rebate later. The invoice price didnt change, the later credit did.
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Frosty Koala
Sep 2
I would never say I rebated the laptop. rebated the fee maybe, but even then it sounds like accounting language
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Curious Parrot
Aug 31
For UK tax stuff, rebate is not a weird old word. HMRC pages use refund, repayment and rebate for money back after too much tax, so "claim a tax rebate" sounds normal here. The sketchy bit is when some company takes a fee to claim it for you.
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Scarlet Oriole
Aug 31
rebate = coupon with homework, basically
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Northern Donkey
Aug 26
US shopping tip: if the ad says $399 after rebate, you normally still pay the bigger price at checkout and do paperwork after. Sometimes it comes back as a prepaid card or store credit, not nice clean cash in your hand.
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Lucky Turtle
Aug 30
yep, and that tiny mail-in form is exactly where people mess it up lol