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reimbursing

reimbursing is the present participle and gerund of reimburse.

Meaning of reimburse

Verb

reimburse (third-person singular simple present reimburses, present participle reimbursing, simple past and past participle reimbursed)

  1. (transitive) 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.
    Synonyms:
    imburse
  2. (transitive) 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

Questions about reimbursing

What is reimbursing the present participle and gerund of?
Reimbursing is the present participle and gerund of reimburse.

Words near reimbursing in the dictionary

  1. reimbursement
  2. reimbursements
  3. reimburser
  4. reimbursers
  5. reimburses
  6. reimbursing
  7. reimbursor
  8. reimbursors
  9. Reimer-Tiemann reaction
  10. Reimer-Tiemann reactions
  11. Reimers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reimbursing (page history and authors); reimburse (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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