v
(transitive) To defray the costs.
n
(automotive, Canada) The lost value a vehicle carries after it has been repaired from an accident.
n
(law) An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.
n
Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
n
(now rare) Payment of debt; settlement.
n
Obsolete form of acquittance. [(now historical) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.]
n
(figuratively, by extension) A payback
adv
Having all costs fully paid or reimbursed by someone else.
n
Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
n
The reduction of loan principal over a series of payments.
v
(transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) Compensation or reparation for a criminal offence.
n
(law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
n
(accounting) The process of charging the client for a portion of the cost of resources that the client has used in order to recover the capital expense.
n
(countable) A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.
n
(banking) A reversal of an accounting entry, especially of a disputed credit-card transaction.
n
(US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
n
Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.
n
Community service performed as an alternative to a criminal penalty.
v
(transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
v
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
n
A recompense or reward for service.
n
(derogatory) A culture (set of social customs) based on a sense of entitlement to legal compensation for one's own or others' mistakes.
n
A form of countertrade in which an investor is paid back by a share of the proceeds or results generated by the goods and services that the investor provided.
v
(obsolete) To compensate.
v
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
n
A payment made to recompense, in part or in full, someone who has made a payment.
n
(public relations) Any efforts, as by a company or organization, to curtail losses, counteract unfavorable publicity, etc.
n
(law, insurance) A compensable loss in a property item's value after having been damaged and subsequently repaired or, in the case of a construction, having been constructed improperly or not according to contract.
v
(transitive) To redeem from mortgage.
n
A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
v
(obsolete) Alternative spelling of imburse [(transitive, obsolete) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.]
n
(law) The intervention of a new debtor, substituted for the former one, who is consequently discharged by the creditor.
v
(transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
n
(law) the proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments
v
(dialectal or obsolete) to pay back; recompense.
n
(UK dialectal) Time allotted for repayment; a term (in which a debt is to be repaid); a delay; respite; suspension.
v
(transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply with money.
n
A reimbursement of loss, damage, or penalty.
v
(chiefly law) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
n
Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
n
(law) The taking of private property by the government without providing compensation, thus forcing the previous owner to file a lawsuit against the government to recover the value of the property taken.
n
The act of issuing, or giving out.
n
(countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; a kind of bribe.
v
(law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
v
To remedy or compensate for (a defect or deficiency).
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To pay back; to return someone a previous good deed.
v
(transitive, finance, law) To provide (someone), especially under the terms of a legal judgment or an agreement, with financial compensation for lost money or other lost assets.
n
Obsolete form of amends. [Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.]
n
Small payments, such as a fraction of a company's profits, paid as compensation for past transgressions.
n
(attributive) The return of the money paid for something; a refund.
n
The refunding of interest; restitution for usury.
v
(transitive) To pay a debt, to provide the entire amount of money owed to another.
v
(figuratively) To give tit for tat.
v
(idiomatic) to bring about something good as a result of past effort or actions.
v
(transitive) To partially repay
v
(transitive) To pay back; to repay.
v
(intransitive and transitive) To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.
n
(rare) A refund; reimbursement.
n
(finance) The reissue of an unpaid debt for less than the initial issue.
n
(uncountable) The act of paying.
n
Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behaviour.
n
(accounting) In the insurance industry, the act of taking money that is currently due from the insurance company and moving it to the patient, knowing that the dollar amount being moved is due from the patient as a deductible, coinsurance, or copayment amount.
n
(law) A count in an action to recover from the defendant, for goods sold, as much as they were worth.
n
(obsolete) Recompense; return; repayment.
v
Alternative form of regift. [(ditransitive, informal) To give something as a gift which the giver previously received as a gift; to give to a person something previously received as a gift.]
v
To repay, compensate, or make amends for.
n
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
n
A rebate (discount or partial refund).
n
The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
n
Obsolete form of recompense. [An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.]
n
(law) Reparation for personal injuries.
n
An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
adj
Serving to recompense.
n
(law) A reduction of the plaintiff's damages by keeping out a part.
n
(accounting) Amounts of reinsurance coverage that are due from a reinsurer.
n
(finance) The recovery of debt.
n
(law) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.
n
A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
n
(finance) One or more loans or other borrowings that repay and replace previous financings.
n
The return of money paid; a refund.
n
The amount that is refunded.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To recompense or reward.
v
To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.
n
(law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
n
A subsequent or additional mortgage.
v
(transitive) To compensate; to pay.
n
A recompense for a loss; compensation.
v
(transitive, chiefly US) To make reparation to; compensate.
n
(usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).
n
Alternative form of repayer [One who repays.]
v
(law, historical) To demand the presence of an offender accused before another tribunal, on the ground that the alleged offence was committed within the repledger's jurisdiction.
v
Obsolete form of requite. [(transitive) To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense]
v
Obsolete form of requite. [(transitive) To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense]
n
Repayment, reward, recompense, return in kind.
v
(transitive) To provide recompense for (something).
n
The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
v
(transitive) To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
v
To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite.
v
To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
v
(idiomatic) To do something for someone similar to what they did for you.
n
(law, South Africa) Genuine pre-estimated damages on the cancellation of a sale or lease, usually relating to immovable property.
n
(finance) The investment of a borrowed overdraft in order to make a profit in the same market.
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The compensation paid to the rescuers.
n
A reparation for an injury or loss.
n
Redress of a wrong by the victim; revenge, retribution.
v
to pay back money that is owed
v
To surrender unconditionally.
n
(idiomatic) The transfer of debt within a company's balance sheet without acquiring new debt often through the capitalization of short-term to long-term debt.
n
(New Zealand) Recompense, payback; revenge.
v
(finance, insurance) Abbreviation of write off. [(accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.]
n
monetary compensation intended to cover damage or injury during a war
v
(dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
v
(accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
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