returned

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtəːnd/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtɝnd/ Hyphenation: re‧turned === Verb === returned simple past and past participle of return === Adjective === returned (comparative more returned, superlative most returned) Bent back; angled. [from 15th c.] That has come back. [from 16th c.] (finance) Yielded as a return on an investment etc. [From 17th c.] (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Back home having been discharged from military service. [from 19th c.] 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38: There are about thirty full-blooded returned men in this state whom I believe are not entitled to the old-age pension. ==== Derived terms ====