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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Reimbursement for COPD, for instance, would fall nearly 20%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
"There are no plans for this treatment to be made available to people from Northern Ireland as part of the cross border Waiting List Reimbursement Scheme."
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025
Reimbursement changes to some pharmacies’ patient assistance programs, which are quite common, also had an impact, causing some patients, particularly those uninsured, to lose access and seek out the state’s PrEP DAP.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022
Reimbursement for primary medical care was 23.8 percent higher than for behavioral care, Milliman found in data for 2013 to 2017.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2022
Reimbursement to Belgium of all the sums loaned to her by the allied and associated Powers during the War.
From Peaceless Europe by Nitti, Francesco Saverio
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