recoupment

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English recoup

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old French -mentbor.

Middle English -ment

English -ment

English recoupment

From recoup + -ment.

Noun

recoupment (countable and uncountable, plural recoupments)

1. A recovery of what had been lost; reimbursement.
   • 1879, John Neilson Taylor, A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant, page 321:

     The doctrine of recoupment is of recent growth, hardly preceding in its origin the beginning of the present century.

2. (law) A reduction of the plaintiff's damages by keeping out a part.

Related terms

• recoup