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reimbursement

/ˌɹiː.ɪmˈbɜːs.mənt/

reimbursement noun: the act of compensating someone for an expense.

Noun

reimbursement (countable and uncountable, plural reimbursements)

  1. The act of compensating someone for an expense.
    • expense reimbursement
    • medical reimbursement

reimbursement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

reimbursement in Hindi

reimbursement, repayment, recompense
प्रतिपूर्ति pratipūrti
reimbursement, restoration
वापसी vāpsī

reimbursement in Tamil

செலவு ஈடு, செலவு ஈடு செய்தல், செலவு ஈடுசெய்தல், செலவை ஈடு செய்தல்

reimbursement in Urdu

reimbursement, restoration
واپسی vāpsī

reimbursement in Telugu

రీఎంబెర్స్మెంట్
More languagesFewer languages
reimbursement in Malayalam
റീഇംബേഴ്സ്മെന്റ്
reimbursement in Nepali
प्रतिपूर्ति

Examples of reimbursement in a sentence

  • Employees can claim reimbursement for travel expenses.
  • The patient received full reimbursement for the cost of treatment.

Forms of reimbursement

pluralreimbursements

Origin of reimbursement

From reimburse + -ment.

Words formed from reimbursement

Questions about reimbursement

What does reimbursement mean?
Reimbursement means the act of compensating someone for an expense.
What is reimbursement in Hindi?
Reimbursement in Hindi is प्रतिपूर्ति (pratipūrti), वापसी (vāpsī). See Reimbursement meaning in Hindi.
How do you use reimbursement in a sentence?
Employees can claim reimbursement for travel expenses.
What part of speech is reimbursement?
Reimbursement is a noun.
How do you pronounce reimbursement?
Reimbursement is pronounced /ˌɹiː.ɪmˈbɜːs.mənt/.
What is the plural of reimbursement?
The plural of reimbursement is reimbursements.

Words near reimbursement in the dictionary

  1. reimbursals
  2. reimburse
  3. reimbursed
  4. reimbursee
  5. reimbursees
  6. reimbursement
  7. reimbursements
  8. reimburser
  9. reimbursers
  10. reimburses
  11. reimbursing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reimbursement (page history and authors); प्रतिपूर्ति (Hindi) (page history and authors); reimbursement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); واپسی (Urdu) (page history and authors); reimbursement (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); reimbursement (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); reimbursement (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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