Definitions

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  • adjective Able to be refunded or swapped in case of customer dissatisfaction, loss, breakage etc.

Etymologies

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refund +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Stall-holders have been known to share some stalls with other groups due to extortionate Eisteddfod rates, but if this is the case here, how come it's refundable from the taxpayer?

    Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to...Brussels 2009

  • A tax credit reduces any tax you owe dollar for dollar, and some credits are even "refundable"--meaning you can get money back even if you didn't pay any taxes.

    When To File Your First Tax Return Ashlea Ebeling 2011

  • A tax credit reduces any tax you owe dollar for dollar, and some credits are even "refundable"--meaning you can get money back even if you didn't pay any taxes.

    When To File Your First Tax Return Ashlea Ebeling 2011

  • That's why the industry has been asking for Congress to make the PTC "refundable" -- payable even to firms without any tax liability.

    Energy Outlook 2009

  • Nontaxpayers, too: The law makes 40 percent of the credit "refundable" - meaning even students or their parents who owe no tax can still get up to $1,000 of the credit for each eligible student as cash back. credit can be claimed for qualified expenses paid for any of the first four years of post-secondary education.

    unknown title 2009

  • The right wing has somehow gotten the idea out there that payroll taxes aren’t really taxes (or something) and that, therefore, making tax credits refundable is some kind of cheating.

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama SOTU Plan Includes Non-Refundable Child Tax Credit Expansion 2010

  • The right wing has somehow gotten the idea out there that payroll taxes aren’t really taxes (or something) and that, therefore, making tax credits refundable is some kind of cheating.

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama SOTU Plan Includes Non-Refundable Child Tax Credit Expansion 2010

  • It's called a refundable credit because workers can get it even if they don't owe any tax.

    A Smaller Tax Bite for Many Employees 2009

  • The best way to do this would be through a so-called refundable tax credit deposited directly into a special investment account for each taxpayer.

    dustbury.com » Prolonged stimulation 2008

  • You know, under the tax bill that originally passed in the Senate, virtually all low income families would have benefited from that increase in the child tax credit, but in last minute negotiations with the House, that was eliminated, the so-called refundable child tax credit, prompting outrage and outcry from Democrats, who said this was yet more proof that the tax bill was simply something to benefit the rich.

    CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2003 2003

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