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¹ = return, send back, hand over, refund.

Ex. For example, when documents on hold are returned, their document number are placed in the held-document-available queue.

Ex. It has been estimated that computers 1000 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers will be needed by the late 1980s to process the amount of data sent back by surveillance satellites.

Ex. Eventually, teachers should be able to 'hand the chalk over to the students' and take a back seat.

Ex. The tax will be refunded but there will be a budgetary shortfall until the refund is received and extra funding will be needed to tide libraries over this period.

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* devolver el afecto = return + Posesivo + affection.

* devolver el importe = refund + payment.

* devolver el sentido a la vida = put + meaning + back in + Posesivo + life.

* devolver las esperanzas = a new lease of life.

* devolver la vida = bring + Nombre + back to life.

* devolver un favor = return + a favour.

* devolver un pago = refund + payment.

* no devolverse = be non-refundable.