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/ˈriːbeɪt/
An amount of money that is paid back to you, especially because you paid too much tax or rent, or because a shop gives money back after a purchase.
退款／退稅
複數 rebates
核心畫面
Picture money that has already left your hand — you paid the tax, the rent, the price on the label — and then part of it travels back to you. Not a gift and not a discount taken off at the counter: the payment happened first, and the return trip comes afterwards.
可以想成：錢已經付出去了——稅、房租、商品的定價——然後其中一部分又走回你手上。它跟「打折」的差別在時間順序：打折是…更多收起
可以想成：錢已經付出去了——稅、房租、商品的定價——然後其中一部分又走回你手上。它跟「打折」的差別在時間順序：打折是結帳當下就少付，rebate 是先照原價付完，之後才退回來。所以看到這個字，畫面裡通常已經有一筆完成的付款，還有一張後來寄來的支票或一筆入帳。原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
rebatenoun/ˈɹiːbeɪt/
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A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
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The return of part of an amount already paid.
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artshobbieslifestyleThe edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
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A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
- For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.
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A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
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An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
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A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
rebateverb/ˈɹiːbeɪt/
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To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
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To diminish or lessen something
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To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
- Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart, With all his strength, the youth directs his dart: But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound, The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.
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To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
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To abate; to withdraw.
- he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery
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falconryhobbieshuntingOf a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
- The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。