returner

noun — 3 senses

returner

noun

Etymology From return + -er.

1

One who returns from another place.

  • Returning to school is fairly simple, but remaining there proves to be a challenge for the returners.2002, Nilda Flores-González, School Kids/Street Kids, →ISBN, page 145:
2

One who returns something, such as defective goods.

  • For instance, some merchants suppress the names of “serial returners”; basically, customers who repeatedly buy products that they quickly return after using them once.2016, Robert Bly, The Marketing Dictionary for the 21st Century:
3

American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A player who runs back a ball which has been punted or kicked

Derived terms
kickoff returner, kick returner, nonreturner, punt returner

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