An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
“Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.”
An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
“election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold”
verb
To come or go back (to a place or person).
“Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.”