refund

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CALIFORNIA STATE I e-filed on 3 / 23 and my refund was authorized, How long until i get my refund in the US mail? audit! how can I prove that 2 dependents lived with me in 2008 1 goes to school and the other goes to daycare?

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  1. transitive verb To give back, especially money; return or repay: refunded the purchase price.
  2. intransitive verb To make repayment.
  3. noun A repayment of funds.
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  • Anyone who wanted a refund was able to return the book, Sbrana said. —  CourierPostOnline.com - News
  • They think that getting a refund is a great idea and ignore the fact that the state (or federal) government used the money all year, interest free. —  Big Dogs House
  • According to the Mac OS X EULA, a refund is available if the terms are declined. —  MacInTouch
  • I am unemployed and I cannot get my tax refund, which is $6000.
  • When you decided to get refund, our online sales, without proper training, gave you wrong information again to ask you to remove Paypal dispute to get your refund, which is incorrect. —  Zone-H syndication
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English refunden, from Old French refunder, from Latin refundere : re-, re- + fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French refondre, remelt, recast, refondre, refonder, restore, pay back, French refondre, remelt, recast, remodel, reform, =Provencal refondre =Spanish Portuguese refundir, pour out again, =Italian rifondere, pour out, remelt, recast, from Latin refundere, pour back, restore, from re-, back, + fundere, pour: see refound. The Old French refondre, in the form refonder, in the sense ‘restore,’ seems to be confused with refonder, refunder, reëstablish, rebuild, restore: see refound. In def. 2 the English verb apparently associated with fund, n. Cf. refund.
  2. from refund, v.
  3. from re- + fund.
 

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