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rebate

[ree-beyt, ree-beyt, ri-beyt] / ˈri beɪt, ˈri beɪt, rɪˈbeɪt /


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The risk is compounded by the elimination in 2021 of a rebate program that allowed tourists to reclaim the value-added tax they paid on souvenirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

IDEX, which sells pumps and valves to a range of industries, said it expected to rebate $14.7 million to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

First-time electric vehicle buyers in California can now snag a $3,500 instant rebate on new EVs made by Tesla, Hyundai or Lucid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

First Secretary of State Louise Haigh told the BBC that there was not currently a mechanism in place for mayors to offer a rebate.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“It’s a rebate on premiums and is prohibited.”

From The Best Policy by Elliott Flower

Yes, it would involve taxing all electric power, but some of that could be rebated based on average per-home power usage before electric vehicles became popular.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2021

The state of Oklahoma issues the plates and registrations for the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations and a portion of the fees the state collects are then rebated back to the tribes.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2018

One was a program related to robo-adviser unit Amerivest that rebated some fees for new clients whose portfolios performed poorly.

From Reuters ● Dec. 6, 2016

Intelligence officials say that the oil is often sold at rebated prices on the black market to traders, businessmen and smugglers through porous borders across northern Syria and western Iraq.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2014

But, now I remember, I once rode free And forgot that the road rebated me!

From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke

UnitedHealth plans to return profits from the Affordable Care Act marketplace to consumers by voluntarily eliminating and rebating profits this year.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Sales have steadily declined since hitting $19.14 billion world-wide in 2015, however, partly because insurers have limited use to the dwindling supply of the sickest patients and Gilead has increased rebating to cope with competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2018

“As much as the drugmakers complain about the rebating scheme, they’ve grown as dependent on its subterfuge, opacity and inequity as everyone else in the system,” he wrote.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017

It would also create a detailed program for rebating those revenues to economically vulnerable populations who would be adversely affected by the subsequent hit to the fossil fuel industries.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2015

The one great accomplishment of the Commission, I think, in the last three years, has been the enforcement of the law as against rebating.

From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Louise Herrick Wall

The state is also seeing lots more people buying used EVs, and lawmakers have approved millions in state incentives to replace lost federal rebates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

An existing bill offering tax rebates on fiber-optic equipment was hastily rewritten to provide tax breaks on data center gear.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Cement makers, steel producers and other energy-intensive industries are only partly compensated by government rebates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

But with rebates flowing, counterparties are now suing some of these companies for pocketing those higher costs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

Why should a railroad company be prohibited from granting rebates?

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner




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