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Retaliation

The act of retaliating or of returning like for like retribution now specifically the return of evil for evil eg an eye for an eye

Requite

To repay in a good sense to recompense to return an equivalent in good to reward in a bad sense to retaliate to return evil for evil to

Pocket veto

of the following constitutional provision Const Art I sec 7 cl 2 ldquoIf any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days Sundays excepted after it shall have been presented to him the same

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latchkey child

child who frequently spends part of the day at home without adult supervision especially a school child who returns home before the parents return from work Called also door key child

Counterstroke

A stroke or blow in return

Elastic

Springing back having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent drawn pressed or twisted springy having the power of

Cultivate

To bestow attention care and labor upon with a view to valuable returns to till to fertilize as to cultivate soil

Dacapo

From the beginning a direction to return to and end with the first strain indicated by the letters D C Also the strain so repeated

Debrief

event to obtain information about that experience used especially of military pilots or diplomatic agents who have just returned from a mission

do si do

in square dancing in which two dancers move around each other in a back to back position and return to their original places

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