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recoup

[ri-koop]

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verb (used with object)

to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.

to regain or recover.

to reimburse or indemnify; pay back: to recoup a person for expenses.

Law. to withhold (a portion of something due), having some rightful claim to do so.

verb (used without object)

to get back an equivalent, as of something lost.

Law. to plead in defense a claim arising out of the same subject matter as the plaintiff's claim.

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a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases

permitting no option, not to be disregarded or modified

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noun

an act of recouping.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French recouper to cut back, cut again, equivalent to re- re- + couper to cut; see coup¹

Related forms

re·coup·a·ble, adjective

re·coup·ment, noun

non·re·coup·a·ble, adjective

un·re·coup·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. recover, restore, retrieve, balance. 3. recompense, remunerate.

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The subsidy would allow the manufacturer to recoup its investment and earn a profit.

None of the money made by used book sales goes back to the publisher to recoup development, marketing, and production costs.

The strategy is profitable in the long run only if the predator can recoup the losses later.

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The subsidy would allow the manufacturer to recoup its investment and earn a profit.

None of the money made by used book sales goes back to the publisher to recoup development, marketing, and production costs.

The strategy is profitable in the long run only if the predator can recoup the losses later.

No one seeks to recoup the installation costs or to make a profit.

Orphan drugs are expensive to produce, and prices need to be set high to recoup costs within such a small market.

Instead, the company intends to recoup those costs through music sales.

It would take an owner years to recoup the extra cost.

The families of the players will want to recoup their legal costs.

Tenants pay rent and recoup the outlay through housing benefit.

Earlier this year the utility raised rates to try to recoup some of those costs.

The only way to pay their salaries is to sell the drug and recoup that money.

And that makes them a lousy value because you won't recoup that added cost in fuel savings.

It cost in the single-digit millions and seems to have enough momentum to recoup its investment and then some.

But if something goes wrong, they cannot recoup and try again or another strategy.

The first is that banks unable to cut costs quickly as margins fall are tempted to recoup them by fleecing customers.

To recoup their investments, buyers want horses that will mature rapidly and win often.

The intent of the system is to give innovators a window to recoup their research and development costs.

Pharmaceutical companies have a right to recoup research and development costs and to a profit on the drugs they develop.

Walking away means there's no chance to recoup that money.

Operators, wanting to recoup their investment, could boost prices considerably.

The also can be configured to bill users so businesses can recoup energy and maintenance costs if they provide public charging.

Hockaday said she hopes to recoup her investment, but is not looking to make a profit.

And students can't recoup money by selling them at the end of the semester.

Faced with an angry public, some governments have agreed to tax banks' borrowing to recoup some of the subsidy they get.

Because they pay up front, the winners have an incentive to bring services to market quickly as a way to recoup costs.

Dukakis appeared to be trying to recoup from that pressure today.

Lower the interest rate and recoup what they can pay.

If so, the economy will never recoup its losses, even after spending picks up again.

There are also chi points which can be use for special moves or for healing to recoup a few of your lost hit points.

Prosecutors said he dug himself a deeper hole by taking ever-larger risks as he tried to recoup lost money.

Stealing some of it allows those elites to recoup their investment and enrich themselves further.

They sell and distribute the film overseas and recoup a serious profit from international distribution.

Millson said that the firm did not have to prove such an allegation to recoup the money under the bankruptcy code.

The need to recoup such costs necessitated long film runs.

The company said it would recoup some of the cost by additional fees charged to investors.

By making people feel poorer, it provides them with an incentive to recoup their income loss by working harder than before.

The phone could be available in the car or parking lot, and the emergency service would recoup its costs as used.

So drug companies have only a few years to recoup their research and development costs.

Fortunately, the federal government could recoup these costs several times over.

Once the prices and stock were flushed out and the bank back to profitability then simply float them again and recoup the money.

They expressed fear they would run out of money before they could recoup their losses from customers.

We pay them when the hospitals recoup the losses by charging higher rates to the insurers who charge us higher premiums.

Herron and his family gave up and sold the animals to a slaughterhouse to recoup a fraction of their investment.

But the sledder might never recoup the money he lost in his two years of training for a team that he made, then didn't make.

The manufacturers go beyond the standard argument that high prices are needed to recoup research costs and add a new twist:.

Brown said the legislation was needed not only to boost consumer confidence, but also to recoup lost revenue.

Fischer anticipated that it would take five to seven years for the operators to recoup their investments.

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World English Dictionary

recoup (rɪˈkuːp)

—vb
1.	to regain or make good (a financial or other loss)
2.	(tr) to reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss
3.	law to keep back (something due), having rightful claim to do so; withhold; deduct

[C15: from Old French recouper to cut back, from re- + couper to cut, from coper to behead; see coup¹]

re'coupable

—*adj*

re'coupment

—n

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Word Origin & History

recoup

1628, from Fr. recouper "to cut back" (12c.), from O.Fr. re- "back" + couper "to cut," from coup "a blow" (see coup). Originally a legal term meaning "to deduct;" sense of "recompense for loss or expense" first recorded 1664.

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