reimburse
/ˌɹiːɪmˈbɜː(ɹ)s/
reimburse verb: to compensate (someone) with payment; especially, to repay money spent on someone's behalf.
Verb
reimburse (third-person singular simple present reimburses, present participle reimbursing, simple past and past participle reimbursed)
- To compensate (someone) with payment; especially, to repay money spent on someone's behalf.
- The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.
- You can tell this funny monkey story, but please keep and mind and tell people that the man who lost all his fruit to the monkeys was entirely reimbursed.2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Rudy, 15:35 from the start, in Penn Radio
- Synonyms:
- imburse
- To recoup (funds spent).
- He has spent many years on the automaton, and it must have cost thousands of pounds in experiment and construction. He makes no secret of hoping to reimburse his outlay.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
reimburse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
reimburse in Hindi
- प्रतिपूर्ति करना
reimburse in Tamil
- செலவுமீள், செலவழித்ததைத் திருப்பிக் கொடு
reimburse in Urdu
- واپس ادا کرنا
reimburse in Bengali
- খরচ শোধ করা, প্রতিদান দেওয়া
More languagesFewer languages
- reimburse in Malayalam
- മടക്കിക്കൊടുക്കുക
- reimburse in Kannada
- ಹಿಂದಿರುಗಿಸು, ಹಿಂದಕ್ಕೆ ಕೊಡು, ತುಂಬಿಕೊಡು, ಕೊರತೆಯನ್ನು ಪೂರೈಸು
Synonyms of reimburse
Antonyms
Forms of reimburse
| third-person singular present | reimburses |
|---|---|
| present participle | reimbursing |
| past participle | reimbursed |
| past | reimbursed |
Origin of reimburse
1591, re- (“back”) + imburse (“pay”, literally “put in a purse”) (perhaps after Middle French rembourser or Italian rimborsàre), from Middle French embourser, from Old French en- (“in”) + borser (“to get money”), from borse (“purse”), from Medieval Latin bursa (English purse).
Words formed from reimburse
Words that rhyme with reimburse
36 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- purse
- worse
- -verse
- coerce
- converse
- excurse
- immerse
- multiverse
- obverse
- terce
- terse
- amerce
- asperse
- herse
- neurodiverse
- perse
- transverse
- a blessing and a curse
- absterse
- accurse
- costotransverse
- demerse
- disburse
- Erse
- intertransverse
- megadiverse
- murse
- nontransverse
- pretransverse
- public purse
- recurse
- renverse
- sperse
- submerse
- subtransverse
- thurse
Questions about reimburse
- What does reimburse mean?
- Reimburse means to compensate (someone) with payment; especially, to repay money spent on someone's behalf.
- What is reimburse in Hindi?
- Reimburse in Hindi is प्रतिपूर्ति करना. See Reimburse meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is reimburse?
- Reimburse is a verb.
- How do you pronounce reimburse?
- Reimburse is pronounced /ˌɹiːɪmˈbɜː(ɹ)s/.
- What is the past tense of reimburse?
- The past tense of reimburse is reimbursed.
Words near reimburse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reimburse (page history and authors); reimburse (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); reimburse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reimburse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reimburse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reimburse (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reimburse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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