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imprests

imprests is the plural of imprest.

imprests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of imprest.

Meaning of imprest

Noun

imprest (plural imprests)

  1. An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee.
    • Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 240

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Questions about imprests

What is imprests the plural of?
Imprests is the plural of imprest.

Words near imprests in the dictionary

  1. impressures
  2. imprest
  3. imprestable
  4. imprested
  5. impresting
  6. imprests
  7. impreventable
  8. imprevisibility
  9. imprevisible
  10. imprimantur
  11. imprimatur

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