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Reimburse   /rˌiɪmbˈərs/   Listen
Reimburse

verb
(past & past part. reimbursed; pres. part. reimbursing)
1.
Pay back for some expense incurred.
2.
Reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss.  Synonym: recoup.



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"Reimburse" Quotes from Famous Books



... the "generous" Mahaya said, "No; your life is yet safe, do not risk it; but let my men do what they can, and in the meanwhile, as I have been a party to your losses, I will feed you and your people; and if I do not succeed in the end, you shall be my guest until I can amass sufficient property to reimburse ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke

... generous girl without a murmur paid out of her humble purse at a time—be it remembered!—when she had scarcely wherewithal to purchase the bare necessaries of life, and when she could have no reason to expect that I should ever be able to reimburse her. ...
— Confessions of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas De Quincey

... body of French and Flemish gentlemen, under William of Orange and his brother, Mouy, Esternay and others, which may have swelled his army to about seventeen thousand men in all.[686] In vain did his cousin, the Duke of Lorraine, attempt to dissuade him, offering to reimburse him the one hundred thousand crowns he had already spent upon the preparations for the expedition. Even Conde's death did not discourage him. He came, he said, to fight, not for the prince, but for "the cause."[687] When about entering ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... real significance were at once rejected by M. de Witte. These were: the cession of the Island of Saghalien, already partly occupied by the Japanese troops; the interning of all Russian ships lying in Japanese waters; an indemnity of $600,000,000 to reimburse Japan for the cost of the war, and a limitation of the ...
— A Short History of Russia • Mary Platt Parmele

... year lists of "immediate requirements," which the council as promptly filed owing to the lack of any accompanying draft. To spend good siller "oot o' the Common Guid" and then look to a far-off Government to reimburse them, was an affair in which the shrewd burgesses of Stranryan very naturally ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett


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