a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together
<noun.artifact> [ verb ]
give a reduction in the price during a sale
<verb.possession> The store is rebating refrigerators this week
cut a rebate in (timber or stone)
<verb.contact>
join with a rebate
<verb.contact> rebate the pieces of timber and stone
Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. i. To abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] --Foxe.
Rebate \Re*bate"\, n. 1. Diminution.
2. (Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties. --Bouvier.
3. A portion of a sum paid, returned to the purchaser, as a method of discounting. The rebate is sometimes returned by the manufacturer, after the full price is paid to the retailer by the purchaser. [PJC]
Rebate \Re*bate"\, n. [See {Rabbet}.] 1. (Arch.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See {Rabbet}.
2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. --Elmes.
3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. --Elmes.
4. [Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] --Elmes.
Rebate \Re*bate"\ (r[-e]*b[=a]t"), v. t. [F. rebattre to beat again; pref. re- re- + battre to beat, L. batuere to beat, strike. See {Abate}.] 1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. --Shak.
2. To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. --Blount.
3. To return a portion of a sum paid, as a method of discounting of prices. [PJC]
{Rebated cross}, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.
Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. t. To cut a rebate in. See {Rabbet}, v.
Now, it has joined MCA Home Video in an "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" rebate deal with promotional displays for a $5 payback in more than 60,000 stores. There's a slick TV commercial, and a potential Pepsi cost of $55 million.
Five of GM's six car and truck divisions put out separate announcements saying they planned to extend to July 5 their rebate programs when the current ones run out May 11.
It promised a 30 per cent cash rebate for work-related child care plus 150,000 new child-care places. But the lustre of the package is slowly fading as the costs it would involve emerge.
Rostenkowski acknowledged that any bill will include a popular provision to excuse farmers and state and local governments from a new law requiring them to pay taxes on their purchases of diesel fuel and then apply to the treasury for a rebate.
Nebraska also says its tax is imposed on dealers' "gross receipts" and that a manufacturer's rebate received after the completion of a sale doesn't affect the total amount the dealer gets for the sale.
The state contracts to receive a rebate from the manufacturer.
Martell tried to prevent Vincent Gomme from obtaining its brandy at the preferential rate by excluding it from rebate vouchers normally given to Socadip members, the commission said.
Mixed in with the Social Security benefit checks and payments on telephone and electric bills are transactions ranging from a 40 cent prize to a "first round sweepstakes" winner to a $1 rebate for the purchase of a women's shaver.
"Then there are things they do want that they can't get." Chrysler has come up with a new wrinkle: a choice of a $900 rebate on Aries and Reliant compacts without low-interest financing or a $600 rebate with financing as low as 3.7%.
"Then there are things they do want that they can't get." Chrysler has come up with a new wrinkle: a choice of a $900 rebate on Aries and Reliant compacts without low-interest financing or a $600 rebate with financing as low as 3.7%.
But Toyota is offering, and advertising, deep dealer discounts on its Camry, which is about $500 cheaper than the Accord even without a rebate.
"It appears to me that (Audi's rebate) plan includes factors that could be found illegal under Wisconsin deceptive advertising and bait-and-switch laws," says Wisconsin Attorney General Don Hanaway.
On some models, rebate restraint has already ended.
The effect of this cut will be to reduce the value of the rebate by one third.
"We treat the rebate as if it were a friendly uncle who gave you money for the down payment," explains Verenda Smith, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Revenue.
These rebate points can be put towards the price of a new vehicle, up to a maximum of Pounds 2,500 for any one car.
RepublicBank gives holders a cash rebate of up to Dollars 250 a year on their credit card purchases, a trend started in the late 1980s by the Discover card, then owned by Sears but now part of the independent Dean Witter Discover.
Starting in April, the company will base the amount of a store's rebate on its actual sales of Matsushita goods.
GM's Cadillac division extended until the end of May its rebate program, available only to current Cadillac or Lincoln owners with no changes.
The absence of a choice between this "free" day-care service and, for example, a tax rebate equal to the cost of this service certainly affords a financial inducement to shift responsibility for the care of children from the family to the state.
The UK, with a slightly below-average GNP, is a net contributor even after the rebate.
Some owners of the cameras filed suit in an effort to change the original terms of Kodak's rebate offer.
A New York law firm filed a $76 million class-action suit that alleges the U.S. importer of Audi luxury cars illegally deceived consumers with a rebate campaign on the troubled Audi 5000 model.
Other Chrysler models are included in the new rebate hikes.
Still, spurred by Gillette's generous 300-yen rebate on Sensor razors, Schick is offering the chance to win a trip to Florida with the purchase of some of its razors.
The UK has been getting a rebate since 1985 - worth Ecu3.3bn last year - thanks to former prime minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher's advocacy.
THE government has announced the size of the cut in the rebate in National Insurance payments it is offering to those who opt out of the state earnings-related pension scheme (Serps).
The rebate program will run through Jan. 6. Hyundai Motor America is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co., Seoul, South Korea.
Also under the plan, a rebate system will be introduced to reduce the tax burden on lower-income earners.
That program expires Jan. 31, but the company guaranteed that if rebates are increased later, Chrysler would make up the difference in the rebate for anyone buying a vehicle between now and the end of next month.