in return

Meaning

1. Oxford70% of films

   as a way of thanking sb or paying them for sth they have done

2. Oxford30% of films

   as a response or reaction to sth

In the movies · 32

• All we're asking in return is your cooperation ...The Matrix1999
• And in return, I'll give you my life.Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
• In return for such a painful acknowledgment...Sense and Sensibility1995
• And in return,The Wolf of Wall Street2013
• We offer ours in return.Arrival2016
• This is what I get in return.Up in the Air2009
• And all that I ask for in return...Dave Chappelle: The Closer2021
• What will Taggart Transcontinental get in return?Atlas Shrugged: Part I2011

Learn it in full scenes

• Sense and Sensibility1995
  • John Dashwood's Deathbed Promise
  • The Dashwoods Lose Norland
  • Edward Ferrars Visits Norland
• The Wolf of Wall Street2013
  • Jordan Belfort Introduces Himself
  • Jordan's First Lunch with Mark Hanna
  • Black Monday Crushes Jordan's Career
• Atlas Shrugged: Part I2011
  • Dagny Defies James Over Rearden Metal
  • Dagny and Rearden's Metal Deal
  • Rearden Gives Lillian a Metal Gift

From the same entry

• by return
• many happy returns
• the point of no return
• sale or return

More idioms

• get the hell out
• on duty
• be under control
• break heart
• be too much
• don't ask
• take it for granted
• not believe your ears
• on the tip of your tongue
• one by one
• be in the same boat
• have what it takes