(agriculture) Surface or subsurface water that leaves the field following application of irrigation water.

plural of point of no return

A local official who oversees the running of an election in a given area. / The officer who makes returns of writs, etc.

plural of returning officer

(uncountable) The lending of goods to a retailer on condition that the latter may return any he has not sold. / (countable) A sale (to a retailer) under this mechanism.

(business, economics) The return that exceeds the risk-free return.

plural of return flow

simple past tense and past participle of return to form

present participle of return to form

(computing) The output of a program or subroutine, passed back to the context where it was called; a retval.