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Definitions: IMPREST |
IMPRESTNoun1. To advance on loan. Transitive verb1. A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment. |
Date "IMPREST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"IMPREST" is a common misspelling or typo for: impress, imprested. |
Crosswords: IMPREST |
| English words defined with "IMPREST": Imprested, Impresting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IMPREST": FSD ♦ imprest fund. (references) |
| "IMPREST" is generally used as an adjective (superlative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IMPREST" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (superlative) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "IMPREST": Imprest fund. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
imprest | 7 |
account imprest | 5 |
fund imprest | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "IMPREST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | pùjèka (loan). (various references) | |
Danish | afgoerelse om oprettelse af forskudsforvaltninger (decision to create imprest accounts). (various references) | |
Dutch | besluit tot instelling van gelden-ter-goede-rekening-kassen (decision to create imprest accounts). (various references) | |
French | commande normalisée, approvisionnement normalisé. (various references) | |
German | Entscheidung über die Errichtung von Zahlstellen (decision to create imprest accounts). (various references) | |
Hungarian | költségelõleg. (various references) | |
Italian | decisione di costituzione di casse di anticipazione (decision to create imprest accounts). (various references) | |
Manx | eearlys (drink money, drink money tip, earnest, handsel). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imprestay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | requisição (recovery, repair, request, requisition). (various references) | |
Russian | аванс (advance, interjacent payment). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zajam (accommodation, advance, loan), predujam (advance). (various references) | |
Spanish | fondo fijo. (various references) | |
Swedish | förskott (advance, advancement, deposit, sub, subsistence allowance). (various references) | |
Ukranian | аванс (advance, subsist). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiền tạm ứng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "IMPREST": imprests. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: permits. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: esprit, merits, mister, miters, mitres, permit, priest, primes, remits, ripest, simper, smiter, spirem, sprite, stripe, timers, tripes. | |
-2 letters: emirs, emits, items, merit, metis, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, peris, perms, piers, piste, prest, pries, prime, prims, prise, prism, remit, rimes, ripes, rites, smite, speir, sperm, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprit, stime, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tempi, temps, terms, tiers, timer, times, tires, tries, trims, tripe, trips. | |
-3 letters: emir, emit, erst, imps, ires, item, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, peri, perm, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, pits, prim, reis, rems, reps, rest, rets, rime, rims, ripe, rips, rise, rite, semi, sept, simp, sipe, sire, site, smit, spit, stem, step, stir, temp, term, tier, ties, time, tips, tire, trim, trip. | |
-4 letters: ems, ers, imp, ire, ism, its, met, mir, mis, per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, psi, rei, rem, rep, res, ret, rim, rip, sei, ser, set, sim, sip, sir, sit, sri, tie, tip, tis. | |
-5 letters: em, er, es, et, is, it, me, mi, pe, pi, re, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: emptiers, imposter, imprests, imputers, pretrims, primates, primmest, stumpier. | |
+2 letters: crimpiest, distemper, expertism, frumpiest, grumpiest, hemipters, impacters, imparters, importers, imposters, imposture, misparted, misreport, orpiments, peristome, preadmits, prelimits, presummit, rebaptism, reimports, rumpliest, septarium, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, temporise. | |
+3 letters: ametropias, crumpliest, distempers, empiricist, expertisms, geotropism, hipsterism, imparities, imperators, imperfects, impetrates, implanters, importunes, impostures, imprecates, imprinters, impurities, mastership, mentorship, metropolis, misprinted, misreports, optimizers, outpromise, perimeters, periosteum, peristomes, permittees, permitters, premoisten, presentism, pretermits, primitives, protamines, psalterium, pterygiums, rebaptisms, reimplants, restamping, resumption, scrimpiest, semitropic, separatism, shipmaster, shrimpiest, slipstream, spearmints, spermaceti, spermatial, spermatids, spermatium, spirometer, spirometry, springtime, subprimate, suppertime, sympatries, temporised, temporises, temporizes, trapeziums, trumperies. | |
+4 letters: atmospheric, champerties, circumspect, competitors, computerise, computerist, coppersmith, disportment, distempered, empiricists, experiments, extemporise, geotropisms, hemipterans, hemipterous, hipsterisms, hypsometric, impairments, impartments, imperatives, imperialist, impersonate, importances, importuners, impregnants, impregnates, impressment, intercampus, masterpiece, masterships, mentorships, mesotrophic, micropipets, misanthrope, misreported, multipliers, omnipresent, optometries, optometrist, outpromised, outpromises, palmistries, parliaments, paternalism, patrimonies, peppermints, peristomial, peritoneums, permeations, permethrins, piezometers, planimeters, plyometrics, preemptions, premoistens, presentisms, prestamping, prestissimo, presumption, presumptive, primalities, primateship, printmakers, promethiums, proselytism, proximities, pyrometries, redemptions, resumptions, semiprivate, semitropics, sempiternal, separatisms, shipmasters, slipstreams, spermacetis, spirometers, spirometric, springtimes, subprimates, suppertimes, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, sympathizer, temporaries, temporising, temporizers, thermopiles, timekeepers, timepleaser, trampolines, tryptamines, ultrasimple, xerophytism. | |
+5 letters: aminopterins, appraisement, approximates, atmospherics, chemotropism, comparatives, computerised, computerises, computerists, computerizes, computerniks, coppersmiths, cryptomerias, disportments, distemperate, distempering, emancipators, expatriatism, extemporised, extemporises, extemporizes, heliotropism, hemoproteins, hypothermias, imperialists, imperilments, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetrations, implementers, implementors, importancies, imprecations, impregnators, impressments, imprisonment, improvements, lamplighters, laparotomies, madreporites, malpractices, masterpieces, meanspirited, metamorphism, metropolises, mifepristone, misanthropes, misinterpret, misreporting, misrepresent, mucoproteins, multiplexers, multiplexors, multipurpose, operationism, optometrists, overoptimism, overoptimist, parametrizes, paternalisms, permutations, photometries, planetariums, polarimeters, polycentrism, postimperial, postmistress, predicaments, predominates, premeditates, premoistened, premonitions, premunitions, prenominates, presentiment, presumptions, primateships, problematics, promontories, promptitudes, proselytisms, psychometric, pteridosperm, reassumption, reequipments, reimposition, respirometer, respirometry, semiparasite, semitropical, sempiternity, slipstreamed, spermatozoid, spirometries, streptomycin, supereminent, supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists, sympathizers, temporalizes, thermophiles, timepleasers, tomographies, trampoliners, watermanship, xerophytisms, xiphisternum. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 50 52 45 53 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. .-. . ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001101 01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P R E S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 0052 0045 0053 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43475052395354 |
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