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imprest
1[ im-prest ]
imprest
2[ im-prest ]
verb
- simple past tense and past participle of impress 1.
imprest
3[ im-prest ]
verb
- simple past tense and past participle of impress 2.
imprest
/ ɪmˈprɛst /
noun
- a fund of cash from which a department or other unit pays incidental expenses, topped up periodically from central funds
- an advance from government funds for the performance of some public business or service
- (formerly) an advance payment of wages to a sailor or soldier
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Origin of imprest1
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Example Sentences
If I had been going into a real engagement I could not have been more deeply imprest by the importance of the occasion.
Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs, and auditor of the imprest.
Awe-imprest, and wonder-struck, she softly opened her side curtain to look after it.
When I went to lunch at noon it was still raining very hard, but as I had no umbrella this simply imprest the subject on my mind.
So home, mightily pleased in mind that I have got my bills of imprest cleared by bills signed this day, to my good satisfaction.
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