reimburse
to pay back
TRANSLATION
reimburse = zurückbezahlen, rückerstatten --- GOOGLE INDEX reimburse: approximately 4,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The US company Wal-Mart has apologised to Chinese consumers after its "Five Spice" donkey meat was found to contain fox meat. Wal-Mart said it was helping Shandong authorities to investigate the incident and would REIMBURSE customers who bought the tainted meat.
(BBC News)
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Ford has lowered fuel economy ratings for six of its vehicles, mostly hybrids, and will REIMBURSE about 215,000 customers after the automaker applied test data incorrectly.
(Detroit Free Press)
(BBC News)
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Ford has lowered fuel economy ratings for six of its vehicles, mostly hybrids, and will REIMBURSE about 215,000 customers after the automaker applied test data incorrectly.
(Detroit Free Press)
Did you
know?
reimburse
verb
- to pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Reimburse is a nice word, provided that one is at the receiving end of the "reimbursement." If your company sends you on a business trip and you pay for the travel expenses out of your own pocket, your company "reimburses" you for those expenses. If you lend someone money, they reimburse you when they pay you back.
People also get reimbursed when they incur a monetary loss. Let's say someone in the neighbourhood accidentally kicks a football through one of your windows. You can expect to be reimbursed for the cost of replacing the window - or you keep the ball as compensation if it has an autograph of Ronaldo.
Defective products or less-than-expected service can also lead to a reimbursement. Let's say you purchase a mobile phone and you discover it doesn't work. You can't even call the retailer or the manufacturer to explain that it doesn't work. You want to be reimbursed, either with a replacement phone or cash money.
The word reimburse is formed from re (back) + imburse (to pay, enrich). Imburse in turn stems from the Middle French embourser (en = in + borser = purse) and eventually from the Latin "bursa" or purse.
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SYNONYMS
compensate, make up for, offset, pay back, refund, remunerate, repay
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You will be reimbursed you as long you have receipts for your expenses."
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Thanks to Volker for suggesting today's word!
verb
- to pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Reimburse is a nice word, provided that one is at the receiving end of the "reimbursement." If your company sends you on a business trip and you pay for the travel expenses out of your own pocket, your company "reimburses" you for those expenses. If you lend someone money, they reimburse you when they pay you back.
People also get reimbursed when they incur a monetary loss. Let's say someone in the neighbourhood accidentally kicks a football through one of your windows. You can expect to be reimbursed for the cost of replacing the window - or you keep the ball as compensation if it has an autograph of Ronaldo.
Defective products or less-than-expected service can also lead to a reimbursement. Let's say you purchase a mobile phone and you discover it doesn't work. You can't even call the retailer or the manufacturer to explain that it doesn't work. You want to be reimbursed, either with a replacement phone or cash money.
The word reimburse is formed from re (back) + imburse (to pay, enrich). Imburse in turn stems from the Middle French embourser (en = in + borser = purse) and eventually from the Latin "bursa" or purse.
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SYNONYMS
compensate, make up for, offset, pay back, refund, remunerate, repay
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You will be reimbursed you as long you have receipts for your expenses."
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Thanks to Volker for suggesting today's word!
