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Word Meanings - REIMBURSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war. 2. To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to ; to pay back

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1. To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war. 2. To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to ; to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation. Paley.

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  • REPAYMENT
    1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
  • REWARDFUL
    Yielding reward.
  • PUNISHER
    One who inflicts punishment.
  • REIMBURSEMENT
    The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
  • INDEMNITY
    1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2.
  • RETURNLESS
    Admitting no return. Chapman.
  • PUNISHABLE
    Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
  • RECOMPENSER
    One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
  • RESTORE
    To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
  • RECOMPENSEMENT
    Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
  • REWARDLESS
    Having, or affording, no reward.
  • ATONES
    Etym: Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.
  • REWARD
    To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
  • INDEMNIFY
    1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for
  • RETURNER
    One who returns.
  • REIMBURSER
    One who reimburses.
  • RESTORER
    One who, or that which, restores.
  • RETURN
    1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser. 2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money. 3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite. The Lord
  • REWARDABLE
    Worthy of reward. -- Re*ward"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*ward"a*bly, adv.
  • PUNISHMENT
    A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • RECOMPENSE
    recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
  • FIREWARDEN
    An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.

 

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