returns
返品
解説 Definition
returns は return（返品、返却）の複数形です。店や会社で、買った商品を返すことや返された商品を指して使います。
Returns are acts of taking or sending purchased goods back to a seller, or the goods that customers have sent back. Shops may accept returns only within a stated period and may require proof of purchase.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
returns は return「返品・返却」の複数形。語末が有声音 /n/ なので複数語尾 -s は /z/ と発音し、/rɪˈtɜːrnz/ となる。accept returns「返品を受け付ける」、free returns「返品無料」、returns policy「返品規定」で覚える。利益や収益の returns もあるが、ここでは店に商品を戻す語義に限定する。
Returns is the plural of the noun return in its shopping sense. Because return ends in the voiced sound /n/, the plural -s is pronounced /z/: /rɪˈtɜːrnz/. Learn it through common retail phrases such as accept returns, free returns, process returns, and returns policy. Picture several products being sent back to a shop because they are unsuitable or unwanted. Although returns can also mean profits, election results, or official reports, receipt, shop, seller, and refund signal the merchandise sense used here.
例文
The shop accepts returns within seven days.
その店は7日以内なら返品を受け付けています。
Please bring your receipt for returns.
返品の際はレシートを持参してください。
Online returns are free this month.
今月はオンライン購入の返品が無料です。
returns の類義語・関連語
returns の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古フランス語 retourner からで、ラテン語 re-（再び）+ tornare（回す）に由来。「元の場所に戻す・戻ってくるもの」が原義で、返品・収益・報告書など多義に発展。関連語: turn（回る）、return（戻る）。「再び回す」が核心。
Returns is the regular plural of return. Return came through Old French retourner, formed from re-, “back or again,” and tourner, “to turn,” ultimately related to Latin tornare, “to turn on a lathe.” The central idea is movement back toward an earlier place or state. From this developed the retail noun for an act of sending goods back, as well as for the returned goods themselves. Other senses, including profits and reports, developed separately from the same core idea.
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