refundable
nounEtymology From refund + -able.
1
Something that is eligible to be refunded.
refundable
adjEtymology From refund + -able.
1
Able to be refunded in case of customer dissatisfaction, loss, breakage etc.
- The entrance fee is refundable if you choose not to stay for more than half an hour.
- RDG explains: "From April 1 2026, the following tickets, Anytime, Off-Peak, Day Travelcards and most Ranger and Rover tickets, will no longer be refundable on the day they become valid for travel." It calls the £40m it thinks it loses "refund abuse", which it explains as "refunds on tickets that have been used but not scanned or endorsed, where a customer falsely states that they did not travel". I'm sure such abuse takes place (and that it's done by passengers). But RDG is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut and punishing many millions of honest passengers by making tickets more restrictive.2026 March 18, Philip Haigh, “Tickets please: 2p per scan to offset fraudulent refunds?”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 48:
- Antonyms
- non-refundable, nonrefundable, unrefundable
- Related terms
- deposit