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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
game1

▶noun

1 an activity engaged in for amusement.
■ the equipment used in playing a board game, computer game, etc.

2 a form of competitive activity or sport played according to rules.
■ (games) a meeting for sporting contests.

■ (games) Brit. athletics or sports as a lesson or activity at school.

3 a complete episode or period of play, ending in a final result.
■ a single portion of play, forming a scoring unit within a game.

4 informal a type of activity or business regarded as a game: the dating game.
■ a secret plan or trick: I was on to his little game.

5 wild mammals or birds hunted for sport or food.
■ the flesh of these, as food.

▶adjective eager and willing to do something new or challenging: they were game for anything. ▶verb

1 (as noun gaming) playing at games of chance for money.

2 play video or computer games.

– phrases
ahead of the game ahead of one's competitors or peers.
beat someone at their own game use someone's own methods to outdo them.
the game is up the deception or crime is revealed or foiled.
game over informal said when a situation is regarded as hopeless.
on the game Brit. informal working as a prostitute.
play the game behave in a fair or honourable way.

– derivatives
gamely adverb,
gameness noun,
gamester noun.

– origin OE gamen ‘amusement, fun’, gamenian ‘play, amuse oneself’, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
game2

▶adjective dated (of a person's leg) lame.

– origin C18: orig. dial., of unknown origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
return/rɪˈtɜːn/

▶verb

1 come or go back to a place.
■ (return to) go back to (a state or situation).

■ (especially of a feeling) come back after a period of absence.

■ Golf play the last nine holes in a round of eighteen holes.

2 give or send back or put back in place.
■ feel, say, or do (the same feeling, action, etc.) in response.

■ (in tennis and other sports) hit or send (the ball) back to an opponent.

■ American Football intercept (a pass, kick, or fumble by the opposing team) and run upfield with the ball.

3 yield or make (a profit).

4 (of a judge or jury) state or present (a decision or verdict) in response to a formal request.

5 (of an electorate) elect (a person or party) to office.

6 Bridge lead (a card) after taking a trick.

7 Architecture continue (a wall) in a changed direction, especially at right angles.

▶noun

1 an act or the action of returning.
■ (also return match or game) a second contest between the same opponents.

■ a thing which has been returned, especially an unwanted ticket for an event.

2 (also return ticket) Brit. a ticket allowing travel to a place and back again.

3 (also returns) a profit from an investment.

4 an official report or statement submitted in response to a formal demand: census returns.
■ Law an endorsement or report by a court officer or sheriff on a writ.

5 (also carriage return) a mechanism or key on a typewriter that returns the carriage to a fixed position at the start of a new line.
■ (also return key) a key pressed on a computer keyboard to simulate a carriage return.

6 an electrical conductor bringing a current back to its source.

7 Architecture a part receding from the line of the front, for example the side of a house or of a window opening.

– phrases
by return (of post) Brit. in the next available mail delivery to the sender.
many happy returns (of the day) a greeting to someone on their birthday.

– derivatives
returnable adjective,
returner noun.

– origin ME: the verb from OFr. returner, from L. re- ‘back’ + tornare ‘to turn’; the noun via Anglo-Norman Fr.

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