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Reimbursement

Reimbursement \Re`im*burse"ment\ (-b?rs"ment), n. [Cf. F. rembursement.] The act reimbursing.
--A. Hamilton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reimbursement

1610s, from reimburse + -ment.

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reimbursement

n. (context business management accounting English) The act of compensating someone for an expense.

WordNet
reimbursement

n. compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.; "he received reimbursement for his travel expenses"

Wikipedia
Reimbursement

Reimbursement is an act of compensating someone for an expense. Often, a person is reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses when the person incurs those expenses through employment or in an account of carrying out the duties for another party or member.

Common examples are firms compensating individuals who buy supplies for their companies, or firms compensating employees on field or out-of-town assignments who pay for their stay and transportation.

Reimbursement can be of many types like day care, mobile expense, transport, medical expense, study expenditure.

Medical device manufacturers provide their customers (hospitals, physicians e.g.) with sufficient information, how to reimburse the therapies. For example, see the German Medtronic Reimbursement homepage

Usage examples of "reimbursement".

She stopped on her way out of the luncheonette to buy a jumbo chocolate-chip cookie, pocketed the receipt for reimbursement and headed back outside into the sour, desert-dry afternoon.

And he got a little antsy talking about his billing, so there could have been something funny about that - taking a cut of her fee, kickbacks for referrals, billing for gynecology instead of psychology to up the reimbursement, whatever.

Her husband, who was a millowner, railed at the clumsy fellow, and while she was with her handkerchief wiping up the stains from her handsome cherry-coloured taffeta gown, he angrily muttered about indemnity, costs, reimbursement.

For acquittal, the maximum fee reimbursement is 20% of your assets/income.

In the meantime, since you don't need my monetary reimbursements, perhaps you'll take this for your efforts.

And there had been far less debate about the reimbursements than might have been.

Insurance reimbursements on our Slotter Key planetary assets—land, improvements, movable property—will have to be used to cover contractual obligations.

These payments and reimbursements of the funded debt, with those which have been made in the four years and a half preceding, will, at the close of the present year, have extinguished upwards of twenty-three millions of principal.

In the three years she had held her job, there was no record of any reimbursements for business trips to San Francisco.

I was relieved that Herby, Rob, and Bruce Lindsey were cleared, but sickened by the abuse of prosecutorial power, the enormous legal costs my friends had been forced to bear, and the staggering costs to the taxpayers of a prosecution over the $13,000 of reimbursements the defendants got from their own bank and the failure to file federal reports on two legal and publicly reported withdrawals of campaign funds.

The seller of the boat had - as by law required since the coming of the rebels-convict - duly reported the sale at the Secretary's office, so that he might obtain the reimbursement of the ten-pound surety into which every keeper of a small boat was compelled to enter.