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reimburse

verb
/ˌɹiːɪmˈbɜː(ɹ)s/

Etymology

1591, re- (“back”) + imburse (“pay”, literally “put in a purse”) (perhaps after Middle French rembourser or Italian rimborsàre), from Middle French embourser, from Old French en- (“in”) + borser (“to get money”), from borse (“purse”), from Medieval Latin bursa (English purse).

  1. derived from en-
  2. derived from embourser
  3. borrowed from rimborsàre
  4. borrowed from rembourser

Definitions

  1. To compensate (someone) with payment

    To compensate (someone) with payment; especially, to repay money spent on someone's behalf.

    • The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.
    • You can tell this funny monkey story, but please keep and mind and tell people that the man who lost all his fruit to the monkeys was entirely reimbursed.

  2. To recoup (funds spent).

    • He has spent many years on the automaton, and it must have cost thousands of pounds in experiment and construction. He makes no secret of hoping to reimburse his outlay.

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Derived

reimbursability, reimbursable, reimbursal, reimbursee, reimbursement, reimburser, reimbursor, unreimbursed

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reimburse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reimburse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at reimburse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA