false return

collocation in English

meaningsoffalseandreturn

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false
adjective
uk
/fɒls/
us
/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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return
noun
uk
/rɪˈtɜːn/
us
/rɪˈtɝːn/
an occasion when someone goes or comes back to a place where they ...
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(Definition offalseandreturnfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffalse return

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I think the giving of afalsereturnis an act much more deserving of punishment.
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The present penalty for failure to make a return or for making afalsereturnis £20.
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I am saying that if the producer renders afalsereturnhe is liable to the penalty as laid down in paragraph 83.
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The farmer, if he does not find out how much of that field is under wheat, lays himself open to a penalty for sending in afalsereturn.
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He is making at the present moment afalsereturnfor the simple reason that he has not the power to get the information from his tenants.
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Certainly it was not afalsereturn.
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An employer was compelled to make a return, but he might have done so knowing that it was false, but to make afalsereturnalso carried a penalty.
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He knows the acreage he sows for wheat or oats, and therefore he ought to be, and he will be, punished very severely if he makes afalsereturn.
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Now consider the case when the procedure false returns the empty set.
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Unless the hospitals and the regions are making false returns that is unquestionably true.
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You tell me they have sent in false returns when they asked for feeding-stuffs.
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There are penalties for people refusing to make returns or wilfully making false returns.
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In 1964–65 there were 94 prosecutions for false accounts, false returns and false claims to allowances.
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During 1947, 1,878 convictions were obtained for making false statements, which included false returns.
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This is primarily directed to seeing that the sample itself is satisfactory, not so much to seeing that false returns are detected.
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Is then the penalty for wilfully making false returns just a bit of bluff?
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Gentleman admit that false returns were made by this man?
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If the permitted maxima are set too low, respectable people may be encouraged to make false returns.
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Further, for recklessly furnishing false returns the company was fined £200 and the secretary £100.
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Who is to discover whether they have made false returns or not?
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