Recoup

Definitions: Recoup

Recoup

Verb

1. Reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss.

2. Make up for or make good.

3. Retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; "My employer is withholding taxes".

Date "recoup" was first used: 1628. (references)

Synonyms: Recoup

Synonyms: deduct (v), recover (v), reimburse (v), withhold (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Restitution	Verb: return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair; (make good).
Restoration	Make whole, redintegrate; recoup; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order; (arrange); refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Recoup

English words defined with "recoup": irretrievable ♦ Recoupe ♦ unretrievable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "recoup": Terminator seeds ♦ uneconomic customer. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Recoup (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Only a few of the electronic music distribution sites, if any, can recoup the costs at this moment. (references)
		The considerable resources often required for the successful introduction of a new product can therefore take longer to recoup than in larger markets. (references)
Civil Liberties	Belarus	The printing press was scheduled to be sold at a tax auction within several weeks of its seizure to recoup the lost tax revenues; however, the auction was delayed 6 to 9 months until the presidential campaign period was over, despite repeated inquiries by Magic into its sale. (references)
Economic History	Moldova	GNT will recoup its investment during the operation of the system over a period of 13 years. (references)
	Syria	In recent years, several companies have either taken their cases to arbitration or have abandoned the market because of unsuccessful attempts to recoup this deposit. (references)
Human Rights	Pakistan	Senior government officials have confirmed that police stations, and assignments therein, are sold to interested parties who then proceed to recoup their investment though illicit activities. (references)
Trade	West Bank	Most local banks currently have a relatively conservative approach, primarily because the lack of legal remedies and absence of a commercial regulatory banking structure make it nearly impossible to recoup non-paying loans. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Recoup" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.37% of the time. "Recoup" is used about 166 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	93.37%	155	25,240
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.82%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	1.81%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	166	N/A

Expressions using "recoup": recoup one's losses ♦ recoup oneself. 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.

Language		Translations for "recoup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), shpërblej (award, be quits, crown, disburse, guerdon, recompense, refund, remunerate, repair, repay, requite, reward, solve, supply), kompensoj (atone for, compensate, counterbalance, make up, offset, recompense, refund, reimburse, remedy), i nxjerr shpenzime, dëmshpërblej (compensate, indemnify). (various references)

Arabic		‏نال تعويضا, ‏حسم (clench, clinch, decide, decision, deduct, deduction, determination, determine, discount, discounting, dispose, rebate, refund, settlement, sew up, shave), ‏عوض (atone, indemnity, make, make amends, make up, make up for, offset, recompense, recuperate, redeem, reimburse, remunerate, requital, restore, retrieve, satisfy, setoff, substitute), ‏خصم (adversary, antagonist, concurrent, deduct, discount, enemy, foe, hostile, knock off, levy, litigant, opposite, rebate, subtract, subtraction, withhold), ‏إستعاد (bring back, encore, give back, recapture, reconquer, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retrieve, scavenge, take), ‏إسترد أمواله, ‏إسترد (call, evict, get back, give back, recall, recapture, reconquer, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retake, retrieve, return, take back, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian		удържам част от сума за дълг, компенсирам (atone, compensate, countervail, indemnify, make amends, make good, make restitution, offset, redeem, redress, repair, reward, set off), обезщетявам (compensate, indemnify, make up, offset, pay, recompense, satisfy). (various references)

Chinese		�"�回 (callback, call-back, repossess, repossession). (various references)

Czech		kompenzovat (compensate, offset). (various references)

Farsi		تلافی کردن (Avenge, Counter, Pay, Reciprocate, Reprisal, Retaliate), جبران کردن (Atone, Compensate, Gratify, Offset, Reciprocate, Rectify, Redress, Reimburse, Remedy, Repair, Retrieve), دوباره بدست اوردن (Recover, Regain, Resume, Retrieve). (various references)

French		rentrer dans ses fonds (to recover one's money), récupérer (recover, recuperate, retrieve), défalquer, déduire. (various references)

German		entschädigen (compensate, indemnify, make amends to, recompense, reimburse, remunerate, reward, to compensate, to indemnify, to pay compensation, to recoup, to reimburse). (various references)

Greek		κρατώ ωσ εγγύησιν, κρατώ ωσ εγγύηση, αναπληρώ (deputize, replace, replenish), αποζημιώνω (buy out, compensate, indemnify, recompense, reimburse, remunerate, to indemnify, to pay compensation), αποζημιώ (indemnify, redress, reimburse). (various references)

Hebrew		לקבל בחזר�" (recover, regain). (various references)

Hungarian		visszatart összegbõl, visszatart (contain, detain, hold, hold back, hold in, hold off, keep in, restrain, retain, retard, to check, to contain, to detain, to entrap, to hold back, to keep back, to keep from, to pocket, to pull, to pull up, to recoup, to repress, to restrain, to retain, to stay, withhold), levonásba hoz, levon követelt összegbõl, kipótol (to complement, to eke out, to make up, to recoup, to recover), kártalanít (indemnify, to compensate, to make up, to recompense, to recoup, to reimburse), kárpótol (compensate, condone, indemnify, make it up, make up, make up to, recompense, reimburse, to compensate, to condone, to make up, to offset, to recompense, to recoup). (various references)

Italian		risarcire (defray, indemnify, recompense, refund, repay), rimborsare (pay back, rebate, refund, reimburse, repay, return), ricuperare (get back, make up for, reclaim, recover, recuperate, recycle, rehabilitate, retrieve, salvage). (various references)

Manx		aayeeilley (compensate, compensation, rebate, repay, repayment, retribution). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecoupray

Portuguese		reter como compensação, indenizar-se, indenizar (atone, compensate, indemnify, recompense, reimburse, satisfy, to indemnify, to pay compensation, unrein), deduzir (abate, abstract, articulate, collect, deduce, derive, educe, elicit, gather, imply, knock out, poke about, retrench), conservar (conserve, keep, maintain, preserve, preserving, reserve, retain, to candy, to pickle, to preserve, to treat), compensar (compensate, equalizer, even, indemnify, make up, make way, offset, pay, redress, reimburse, unrein). (various references)

Romanian		redobândi (recover, regain), recupera (recover, recruit, retrieve, salvage), compensa (atone for, cancel, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, indemnify, make up for, offset, redeem, satisfy). (various references)

Russian		удерживать (coerce, dam back, deter, hold, hold back, hold in, keep back, restrain, withhold), компенсировать (compensate, countervail, indemnify, made up with, make up, make up for, offset, recompense, remunerate), вычитать (deduct, reckon off, subduct, subtract, subtracted, subtracts, take off), возмещать (atone, compensate, make good, make good to, make up, recoupe, redeem, reign, reimburse, reimbursed, repair, repay, replace), производить расчет. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nadoknaditi (catch up, compensate, make good, make it up, make up, make up for, make up to, recompense, recover, redeem, reimburse). (various references)

Spanish		recuperar (catch up, get back, hold, light out, make up for, reclaim, recover, recuperate, regain, retrieve, undelete), recobrar (get back, pick up, recapture, recover, regain, repossess, retrieve, win back), indemnizarse por. (various references)

Swedish		hålla inne (withhold), ersätta (compensate, displace, double for, indemnify, pay, recompense, reimburse, remunerate, renew, repay, replace, satisfy, supersede). (various references)

Turkish		yerini doldurmak (sub, supply, supply the place of), telâfi etmek (atone, atone for, compensate, make up, make up for, overcompensate, recover, recuperate, redeem, redress, repair, repay, retrieve, right, undo), tazmin etmek (compensate, make good, make restitution), parasını çıkarmak, karşılamak (answer, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, fulfil, fulfill, greet, make amends, meet, provide, provision, receive, recompense, redress, satisfy, supply, take, welcome), ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay for, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, redeem, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay, wipe out). (various references)

Ukranian		коменсувати, відрахоувати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	recupero. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	re-. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	recouper. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "recoup": recoupable, recoupe, recouped, recouping, recouple, recoupled, recouples, recoupling, recoupment, recoupments, recoups. (additional references)
	Words ending with "recoup": precoup. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Recoup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bricout, eccup, eryou, precomp, Rebour, Reboux, reclu, reco, recompe, recook, recoop, recop, recouple, recow, recup, rescous, Treloup, Tricomp. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "recoup" (pronounced rikuw"p)
3	-k uw" p	coop, coupe, scoop.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: croupe.
	Words within the letters "c-e-o-p-r-u"
	-1 letter: coper, coupe, croup.
	-2 letters: cero, cope, core, coup, crop, cure, ecru, euro, pore, pour, puce, pure, repo, rope, roue, roup.
	-3 letters: cep, cop, cor, cue, cup, cur, ecu, ope, orc, ore, our, pec, per, pro, pur, rec, rep, roc, roe, rue, upo.
	-4 letters: er, oe, op, or, pe, re, up.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-o-p-r-u"
	+1 letter: coupler, coverup, croupes, pouncer, precoup, procure, produce, recoupe, recoups.
	+2 letters: computer, corpuses, couplers, coverups, croupier, cupreous, euphoric, occupier, opercula, opercule, outcaper, outprice, pouchier, pouncers, precious, prefocus, procured, procurer, procures, produced, producer, produces, recouped, recouple, reoccupy, supercop.
	+3 letters: composure, computers, coproduce, corpulent, corpuscle, corrupted, corrupter, croupiers, croupiest, eurytopic, eutrophic, occupiers, opercular, opercules, operculum, outcapers, outpreach, outpriced, outprices, peculator, porcupine, precursor, preoccupy, procedure, procurers, producers, pronounce, pronuclei, prosecute, recompute, recouping, recoupled, recouples, reproduce, supercoil, supercool, supercops, superjock, uncoupler, uncropped.
	+4 letters: colporteur, composures, compounder, coproduced, coproducer, coproduces, copurified, copurifies, corpulence, corpulency, corpuscles, corrupters, corruptest, corruptive, coryphaeus, counterspy, countertop, cowpuncher, drupaceous, operculars, operculate, operculums, outcapered, outcropped, outproduce, peculators, pelycosaur, percussion, pernicious, persecutor, porcupines, precarious, precaution, preciouses, preciously, preclusion, precocious, precompute, precursors, precursory, predaceous, predacious, prefocused, prefocuses, procedural, procedures, procumbent, procurable, producible, productive, pronounced, pronouncer, pronounces, pronuclear, pronucleus, proscenium, prosecuted, prosecutes, prosecutor, prospectus, recomputed, recomputes, recoupable, recoupling, recoupment, reoccupied, reoccupies, reproduced, reproducer, reproduces, speculator, subprocess, subproject, sunporches, superblock, supercargo, supercoils, supercools, superjocks, supermacho, supermicro, superscout, supersonic, superstock, supertonic, uncouplers, unproduced, uroscopies.
	+5 letters: aponeurotic, champertous, colporteurs, compounders, computerdom, computerese, computerise, computerist, computerize, computernik, coproducers, copublisher, corpulences, corpulently, corruptible, corruptness, countercoup, counterpane, counterpart, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, counterplot, counterploy, counterpose, counterstep, countertops, cowpunchers, cupriferous, cupronickel, exculpatory, fluoroscope, groupuscule, incorrupted, intercouple, luteotropic, mucoprotein, neuroleptic, neuropathic, neurotropic, noncomputer, operculated, outcapering, outpreached, outpreaches, outproduced, outproduces, overproduce, pelycosaurs, percussions, perfunctory, persecution, persecutors, persecutory, perspicuous, photoreduce, pococurante, polynuclear, preannounce, precautions, precipitous, preclusions, precomputed, precomputer, precomputes, preconquest, prefocusing, prefocussed, prefocusses, preluncheon, preoccupied, preoccupies, procedurals, procrustean, proctodaeum, procurement, pronouncers, prosceniums, prosecuting, prosecution, prosecutors, provocateur, recomputing, recoupments, reoccupying, reproachful, reproducers, reproducing, scuppernong, speculators, subprojects, superblocks, supercargos, supercoiled, supercooled, supermachos, supermicros, superschool, superscouts, supersonics, superstocks, supertonics, unprocessed, unprotected.
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