Decrease and Rebate

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
  • synonyms: discount
• A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together.
  • synonyms: rabbet

verb

• Give a reduction in the price during a sale.
  • usage: "The store is rebating refrigerators this week"
• Cut a rebate in (timber or stone. )
• Join with a rebate.
  • usage: "rebate the pieces of timber and stone"

• (v.i.) To abate; to withdraw.
• (n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
• (n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
• (n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
• (n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
• (v.t.) To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.
• (v.t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
• (n.) Diminution.
• (n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
• (v.t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due or customs duties.

Negotiated return of a portion of the interest earned by the lender of stock to a short seller. When a stock is sold short, the seller borrows stock from an owner or custodian and delivers it to the buyer. The proceeds are delivered to the lender. The borrower, who is short, often wants a' Rebate' of the interest earned on the proceeds under the lender's control, especially when the stock can be borrowed from many sources. Note: The seller must pay the lender any dividends paid out or, in the case of bonds, interest that accrues daily during the term of the loan.