reimburse

English

Etymology

1610s, re- (“back”) +‎ imburse (“pay”) (imburse (literally “put in a purse”), circa 1530, now obsolete), from Middle French embourser, from Old French en- (“in”) + borser (“to get money”), from borse (“purse”), from Medieval Latin bursa (English purse).

Pronunciation

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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.

   The company will reimburse your expenses for the business trip.

Derived terms

• reimbursable
• reimbursement
• reimburser

Related terms

• bursa, bursar, bursary
• purse

Hypernyms

• compensate, pay

Translations

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

• Esperanto: repagi (eo)
• Estonian: hüvitama (et), korvama (et)
• Finnish: hyvittää (fi), korvata (fi)

• German: erstatten (de)
• Portuguese: reembolsar (pt)
• Russian: возмещать (ru) (vozmeščatʹ), компенсировать (ru) (kompensirovatʹ)