reimbursement
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Origin of reimbursement
Explanation
A reimbursement is a repayment for money you've already spent. When you travel for work, you get a reimbursement for your work-related expenses, like hotel bills and plane tickets, but you'll have to pay for that trip to the circus yourself. Reimbursement comes from the Latin root words re, meaning again; in, meaning into; and bursa, meaning purse. So the word reimbursement literally means in a purse again. After your parents' basement flooded, they paid to repair the damage and then got a reimbursement from the insurance company, so that they could put the money they spent in their purse again.
Vocabulary lists containing reimbursement
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There could be more penalty payments up for reimbursement, said Marine.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Those affected will be given details of the process for requesting reimbursement of reasonable legal costs caused by the delay in accessing the funds.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
His insurance policy does provide some reimbursement for code upgrades, but he said it won’t come close to the costs the family is facing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Meanwhile, the reimbursement architecture makes overmedication practically inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
In hospitals in which the reimbursement rates for appendectomies ran higher, for instance, the surgeons removed more appendixes.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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