returned

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of return

adj

  1. Bent back; angled.
  2. That has come back.
  3. (finance) Yielded as a return on an investment etc.
  4. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Back home having been discharged from military service.
    There are about thirty full-blooded returned men in this state whom I believe are not entitled to the old-age pension. 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38

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