To recoup is a kind of recovery: If you lost some money but then made that amount back, you recouped your loss. When you recuperate, you get better after being sick.
- to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses. 2. to regain; recover. 3. to reimburse; pay back; recompense. 4. to get back an equivalent, as of something lost. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
If you recoup a sum of money that you have spent or lost, you get it back. Insurance companies are trying to recoup their losses by increasing premiums. [VERB noun]
RECOUP meaning: 1. to get back money that you have spent or lost: 2. to get back money that you have spent or…. Learn more.
Definition of recoup verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
recoup (third-person singular simple present recoups, present participle recouping, simple past and past participle recouped) (transitive, intransitive) To make back (an investment or similar).
The meaning of RECOUP is to get an equivalent for (losses) : make up for. How to use recoup in a sentence.
regain or recover: to recoup one's losses. to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment. to regain or recover. pay back: to recoup a person for expenses. Law to withhold (a portion of something due), having some rightful claim to do so. to get back an equivalent, as of something lost. 's claim. n. an act of recouping.