reimburse

English

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːɪmˈbɜː(ɹ)s/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

Verb

reimburse (third-person singular simple present reimburses, present participle reimbursing, simple past and past participle reimbursed)

1. To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.

   Synonym: (one sense, obsolete) imburse

   The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.

   • 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Rudy, 15:35 from the start, in Penn Radio‎^[1]:

     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.

Hypernyms

• compensate, pay

Derived terms

• reimbursable
• reimbursement
• reimburser

Related terms

• bursa, bursar, bursary
• purse

Translations

to compensate with pay or money; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf

• Azerbaijani: qarşılamaq (az)
• Bulgarian: връщам (bg) (vrǎštam), възстановявам (bg) (vǎzstanovjavam)
• Catalan: reemborsar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 报销 (zh) (Bàoxiāo)

• Dutch: rembourseren, vergoeden (nl), terugbetalen (nl)
• Esperanto: repagi
• Estonian: hüvitama, korvama
• Finnish: hyvittää (fi), korvata (fi)
• French: rembourser (fr)
• German: erstatten (de)
• Hungarian: megtérít (hu)
• Italian: rimborsare (it)
• Japanese: 返金 (ja) (henkin), 返済 (ja) (henzai)
• Maori: whakahoki moni
• Portuguese: reembolsar (pt)
• Romanian: rambursa (ro)
• Russian: возмеща́ть (ru) (vozmeščátʹ), компенси́ровать (ru) (kompensírovatʹ)
• Slovene: poplačati komu
• Spanish: reembolsar (es), pagar (es)
• Swedish: ersätta (sv)
• Turkish: geri ödemek, telafi etmek (tr)
• Welsh: ad-dalu

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