rebate

1. 1.

   a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

   Synonymsdiscount

   Broaderrefund

   Narrowerrent-rebate
2. 2.

   a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together

   Synonymsrabbet

   Broadergroove

Other forms of rebate

plural

rebates·

past tense

rebated·

present participle

rebating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rebate

What does rebate mean?

rebate means "give a reduction in the price during a sale". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rebate?

rebate has 2 syllables: re-bate. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˈɹiˌbeɪt/.

What is another word for rebate?

Close synonyms include discount, rabbet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rebate a common word?

rebate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rebate?

8 words rhyme with rebate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.