reimbursement

English

Etymology

From reimburse +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiː.ɪmˈbɜːs.mənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

reimbursement (countable and uncountable, plural reimbursements)

1. (business, management, accounting) The act of compensating someone for an expense.

   expense reimbursement

   medical reimbursement

   seek reimbursement

   Employees can claim reimbursement for travel expenses.

   The patient received full reimbursement for the cost of treatment.

Hypernyms

• compensation, payment

Derived terms

• nonreimbursement

Translations

compensating someone for an expense

• Bulgarian: връщане (bg) n (vrǎštane), възстановяване (bg) n (vǎzstanovjavane)
• Catalan: reemborsament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 報銷 / 报销 (zh) (Bàoxiāo)

• Dutch: terugbetaling (nl) f
• Estonian: hüvitus
• Finnish: korvaus (fi), takaisinmaksu (fi)
• French: remboursement (fr) f
• German: Erstattung (de) f
• Hebrew: החזר כספי
• Italian: rimborso (it)
• Korean: 변제(辨濟) (ko) (byeonje)
• Polish: zwrot (pl) m, refundacja f
• Portuguese: reembolso (pt) m
• Romanian: rambursare (ro)
• Russian: возмеще́ние (ru) n (vozmeščénije)
• Spanish: reembolso (es) m
• Swedish: ersättning (sv)
• Turkish: zararı ödeme