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antireturn

antireturn adjective: preventing or opposing the return of something, e.g. fluid in a pipeline, or citizens who have migrated to another country.

Adjective

antireturn (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or opposing the return of something, e.g. fluid in a pipeline, or citizens who have migrated to another country.
    • an antireturn agenda
    • an antireturn device

Origin of antireturn

From anti- + return.

Questions about antireturn

What does antireturn mean?
Antireturn means preventing or opposing the return of something, e.g. fluid in a pipeline, or citizens who have migrated to another country.
What part of speech is antireturn?
Antireturn is an adjective.

Words near antireturn in the dictionary

  1. antiretinal
  2. antiretroviral
  3. antiretrovirally
  4. antiretrovirals
  5. antiretrovirus
  6. antireturn
  7. antireunification
  8. antireversion
  9. antirevisionism
  10. antirevisionist
  11. antirevisionists

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