Definitions
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- noun the
retail facility whereby acustomer maywithdraw anamount of cash when making apurchase with acredit card ordebit card , the amount being added to thebill
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Examples
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Bank of America has launched a new cash-back reward program called "Add it Up," where money is deposited in your bank account when you shop from partner retailers.
- The Consumerist 2009
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Andrea, an American Express member for over 20 years, is upset because AmEx canceled her cash-back card two weeks before her $500 rebate check was supposed to arrive, and declared the rebate forfeit.
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You can also earn up to $300 in cash-back rewards with a 1 percent rebate offer on your first $30,000 in other purchases.
Curtis Arnold: Best Credit Cards for Back-to-School Expenses Curtis Arnold 2011
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Microsoft has tried many tricks, including giving people cash-back rewards, to grab a bigger market share in the search business.
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Compound interest, reward points, "free" money, cash-back, bonus offers.... if it requires too much effort to understand a savings program, it can be easier to do nothing, and people are understandably skeptical of the offers.
Patrice Peyret: The Psychology of Saving (Especially When You're Broke) Patrice Peyret 2011
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You can also earn up to $300 in cash-back rewards with a 1 percent rebate offer on your first $30,000 in other purchases.
Curtis Arnold: Best Credit Cards for Back-to-School Expenses Curtis Arnold 2011
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The bigger risk is in the automotive sector, where incentives, or consumer subsidies such as cash-back payments, are creeping up again.
Can Autos, Airlines Be Disciplined? Liam Denning 2011
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In some cases, Wells Fargo employees engaged in "upselling," putting borrowers in cash-back loans "that were sufficiently large" that they no longer qualified for prime pricing, according to the Fed order.
Wells Draws $85 Million Penalty in Subprime Case Ruth Simon 2011
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On the plus side, there are more of those cash-back bonuses and reward points that millions of Americans have come to expect.
States' Benefits for 529 Plans Not Created Equal Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo 2011
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Already, individual auto dealerships have cut cash-back offers and other incentives.
Give a Retirement Community a 'Test Drive' Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo 2011
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