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Answer for the clue "Repay (lost or spent money) ", 9 letters:
reimburse

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Word definitions for reimburse in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. pay back for some expense incurred; "Can the company reimburse me for my professional travel?" reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss [syn: recoup ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES reimburse sb’s expenses (= pay the money someone has spent for business purposes back to them ) ▪ Your expenses will usually be reimbursed within one month of receiving the claim. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN company ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from re- "back" + imburse "to pay, enrich," literally "put in a purse" (c.1530), from Middle French embourser , from Old French em- "in" + borser "to get money," from borse "purse," from Medieval Latin bursa (see purse (n.)). Related: Reimbursed ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.

Usage examples of reimburse.

Remo and Farger hitched a ride into the city, Remo said he would reimburse Farger for the car.

The city of Glasgow, in North Britain, presented a petition, praying to be reimbursed the sum of ten thousand pounds, extorted from that corporation by the son of the pretender during the rebellion.

Discretionary accounts, reimbursed expenses, overstated of course- a percentage of our expense allowance salted away, laundered clean, invested in the market.

The Lahore state to pay twenty-two lacs of new Nameck-shee rupees, of full tale and weight, per annum, in order to reimburse the expenses which the British government should incur, in preserving by an armed force the authority of the maharajah, and the observance of the treaty against the refractory chiefs or disbanded soldiery.

It might be the champagne, which should really be classed as a valuable social medicament, and reimbursed by the Securite Sociale.

Also, however, knowing the unfortunate proclivities of that pack of unhung thieves who arrange my audiences, I am more than sure that you had to lay out more than just a few full ounces of gold, ere you at last entered this chamber, so allow me to reimburse at least a fraction of that expense.

It had the look of a semidomesticated creature, and I took care to leave a coin beside the bloodless carcass to reimburse its owners for my nourishment.

Unfortunately for the Derrs, the policy reimbursed only for treatment of cholera, Ebola virus, chikungunya fever, trypanosomiasis, and six other tropical diseases not likely to afflict a couple in their mid-eighties living in Skowhegan, Maine.

In those days, when networks consumed money as if there were no tomorrow, correspondents found their own accommodation and were reimbursed More recently, with leaner budgets and accountants in catbird seats, The Evening News 319 the network supplied living quarters--of lesser quality and cheaper.

House of Thul will gladly reimburse the Jedi for all detonators used on my behalf.

Trainers bought yearlings at auction for their owners, paying compulsorily for them on the spot and relying on the owners to reimburse them fairly soon.

To show his pleasure, Kang Xi gave Trinket carte blanche to reimburse himself from the Privy Purse for the expenses he had incurred on this last mission.

If the manager of the handsome Cooper Cinerama did oblige, I shall be happy to reimburse him.

And lest his character be misconstrued (which would be deplorable) it may as well be stated now that he had not laid down upward of twenty thousand good golden guineas for a colourable Corot without having a tolerably clear notion of how he meant to reimburse himself if it should turn out that he had paid too dear for his whistle.

He imparted this suggestion to the Tyrolese, who approved the proposal of decamping, though he combated with all his might our hero's inclination to withdraw himself before the trial, by repeating the assurances of the solicitor, who told him he might depend upon being reimbursed by the sentence of the court for great part of the sums he had expended in the course of the prosecution.