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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recoup
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
recoup your investment (=get back the money that you have invested )
▪ Investors will have to take legal action to recoup their investment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cost
▪ This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.
▪ The company expects to recoup its capital costs in less than two years.
▪ After pointing out that it would take fifteen years to recoup the cost from fuel saved, the department had reluctantly agreed.
▪ Classical stations are often worth millions of dollars, and only can recoup their cost through mass-appeal programming.
▪ The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs.
▪ The government has spent £1 billion on the Expo site alone and expects to recoup the cost from the visitors.
▪ It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.
costs
▪ This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.
▪ The company expects to recoup its capital costs in less than two years.
▪ The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs.
▪ It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.
▪ The finance branch simply wants charges that are high enough to recoup the costs of building and running the plant.
investment
▪ Photo: Ian Jackson How are you going to recoup your investment?
▪ Companies that sponsor public schools, for example, can expect to recoup their investment in ten years.
▪ Sears is yet to recoup its investment in Discover.
▪ In addition, competition may mean that we are unable to recoup our initial investment even if we win the contract.
▪ Twentieth Century-Fox, desperate to recoup its investment, negotiated a new deal with David Merrick, producer of the stage show.
▪ It needs time to recoup its investment in Pentium, and still has plenty left to milk in the 80486.
▪ Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment.
loss
▪ They recouped some of the losses late in the day.
▪ Other pharmaceuticals recouped some of their losses on the back of Glaxo's late recovery.
▪ If the homeowner can not meet the loan payments, the lender can foreclose and resell the house to recoup the loss.
▪ Older women, especially widows, have particular problems in recouping their losses.
▪ Olaf died in battle, attempting to recoup his losses.
▪ When the time comes, it can recoup any water loss and rehydrate very rapidly, although not by drinking.
▪ But unless covered by his own insurance, the second renter may have to sue the negligent tenant to recoup the losses.
money
▪ Without a theatrical release in their own domestic market, they stood little chance of recouping the money lavished on them.
▪ The garage was later sold to Nissan for £200,000, allowing creditors to recoup some of the money they had lost.
sale
▪ The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales, leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She put $50 on the next race in an attempt to recoup her losses.
▪ The dentist gives treatment for free and then recoups the cost from the government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But unless covered by his own insurance, the second renter may have to sue the negligent tenant to recoup the losses.
▪ If the homeowner can not meet the loan payments, the lender can foreclose and resell the house to recoup the loss.
▪ Olaf died in battle, attempting to recoup his losses.
▪ San Marcos seeks to recoup more than $ 4 million it was forced to allocate for low-income housing.
▪ The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales, leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m.
▪ This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.
▪ Twentieth Century-Fox, desperate to recoup its investment, negotiated a new deal with David Merrick, producer of the stage show.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recoup

Recoup \Re*coup"\, Recoupe \Re*coupe"\ (-k??p"), v. t. [F. recouper; pref. re- re- + couper to cut.]

  1. (Law) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

  2. To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.

  3. To reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive.

    Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost.
    --Froude.

    Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom.
    --Duke of Argyll.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recoup

1620s, from French recouper "to cut back" (12c.), from Old French re- "back" (see re-) + couper "to cut," from coup "a blow" (see coup). Originally a legal term meaning "to deduct;" sense of "to recompense for loss or expense" first recorded 1660s. Related: Recouped; recouping.

Wiktionary
recoup

vb. 1 To make back, as an investment. 2 To recover from an error. 3 (context legal English) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct. 4 (context transitive English) To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive.

WordNet
recoup

  1. v. reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss [syn: reimburse]

  2. regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses" [syn: recover, recuperate]

  3. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; "My employer is withholding taxes" [syn: withhold, deduct]

Usage examples of "recoup".

If by the time the wheat reaches the city we own every kernel of wheat between here and Ylith, then we can ship the high-quality grain to the Free Cities and the Far Coast, recoup our investment, and make our profit.

The river crossing had cost them energy he hoped to recoup by shortening their journey.

Silius Italicus now likes to imply he has given up accusing - yet he it was who laid corruption charges against Rubirius Metellus, and in order to recoup his compensation award, he is soon to accuse Metellus Negrinus of killing his father.

The Earl of Warwick, it seems, pretended to have received great injuries from the latter and threatened to recoup his losses at their expense.

Then he made a division of the skins and dried meat, and repaired to Tortuga or one of the French settlements on the coast of Hispaniola to recoup his stock of ammunition and spend the rest of his gains in a wild carouse of drunkenness and debauchery.

There is no bigger fool than a man who multiplies his vowels in a desperate bid to recoup his losses.

If you stay away from the tables and rebuild, you could recoup your fortunes within ten years even without my help.

Every time Ned wrote from India, where he was currently residing with Father in search of a way to recoup their recent losses, Olivia would soak in the letter, poring over each and every detail Ned let fall.

He could pause, and recoup, and rebuild shattered consciousness from the haven of sheltering peace.

Unable to master himself, he could not recoup his sapped will, even to raise his strung bow.

They would leave behind their grim toll of wounded and the dishonored few who failed to recoup shattered wits.

He had fed on her so often recently to recoup his own blood loss, and he had not replenished her strength as he should have.

Since peace could only be recovered through an answer, Bransian moaned, pushed erect, and groped to recoup his bludgeoned wits.

It was essential for her well-being to have periods entirely alone so that she could recoup her sapped strength.

Vermont before setting n - partly to give Sabrina time to recoup her and partly to do the same for Derek.