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How to spell refund

Refund is spelled R-E-F-U-N-D.

What it means: An amount of money returned to a buyer.

In a sentence: The store gave me a refund for the toy I returned. ▶

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Same family: refunds, refunded, refunding, fund, refundable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Refund” comes from Latin roots re- meaning “back” and fundere meaning “to pour,” so it originally had the idea of money being “poured back” to you. English began using “refund” in the 17th century for repaying money that had already been paid.

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