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▪ I. recoup, n. Law.|rɪˈkuːp|
[f. next.]
(See quots. and cf. recoupe b.) Also attrib.
1860Wharton's Law Lex., Recoup, the keeping back or stopping something which is due; discount; recompense. 1869[see recoupment]. 1904H. G. Turner Hist. Colony Victoria II. ix. 276 The too general use of the recoup system under which public works were authorised to be paid for out of future loans. 1966Public Administration XLIV. 411 If the recoup mechanism is to do its job.
▪ II. recoup, v.|rɪˈkuːp|
Also 5, 7 recoupe.
[ad. F. recouper (12th c.), to cut back, etc., f. re- re- + couper to cut: see coup v.2 and n.3]
†1. trans. To cut short, interrupt. Obs. rare— 1.
Cf. Cotgrave's rendering of F. recouper.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cxvi. (1869) 118 Swich a fool..seith þat he wot wel and vnderstant what folk wolden seye, and recoupeth here woordes, and holt hem as fooles.
2. Law. To deduct; to take off or keep back. Also absol., to make a deduction.
1628Coke On Litt. 39 The demandant..shall recoupe the third part of the profits. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. xi. §809. 363 This land shall be extended, and the common shall be recouped and deducted. 1672Manley Cowell's Interpr., Recoupe,..to defalke or discount. As if a man hath ten pounds issuing out of certain Lands, and he disseises the Tenant of the Land in an Assise brought by the Disseisee, the Disseisor shall Recoupe the Rent in the Damages. 1869Waterman Law of Set-off & Recoupment 152 note, The defendant might recoup for the damages resulting from the plaintiff's want of skill. Ibid., The defendant might recoup damages for a breach of warranty for the thing sold.
3. a. (With double object.) To recompense (a person) for (some loss or outlay); to make up or make good (loss, etc.) to (a person).
1664in New England Co. (1896) 6 A man who hath as little estate to recoupe us the wrongs done us, as he made scruple to doe the same. 1860Reade 8th Commandm. 107 So my partner..had run us into fresh expenses, which he was entitled to be recouped. 1870Observer 13 Nov., The amounts returned in sale of land..will tend to recoup the Metropolitan Board a considerable amount of their outlay.
b. To recompense, repay (a person). Also const. for (the loss or expense). Freq. refl., to recover what one has expended or lost. Also absol. or intr.
1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 94 They made reprisals, in the way of pilfering, to recoup themselves for their forced gratuities. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. x. vii. (1876) 627 The home trader, when rates increase, will only be able partly to recoup himself by a rise in prices. 1906L. J. Vance Terence O'Rourke i. iii. 19 Each..had seemed to be broken in fortune, and..ready to seize upon any chance to recoup. 1976C. Bermant Coming Home ii. vii. 218, I had..acquired so many debts that if I didn't return to England to recoup, we might have to run for it.
c. intr. To regain lost health, vitality, etc.; to recuperate.
Prob. arising from confusion with recuperate.
1939M. Spring Rice Working-Class Wives iv. 79 We have sent her away for two years running to help her to recoup. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. ii. 66 The Society recouped: found its own Marguerite.
4. a. To make up for, compensate for, make good.
1860Reade 8th Commandm. 107, I offered in Court to recoup these expenses incurred. 1880Standard 11 Dec., How to recoup the loss occasioned to the State revenue by the abolition of the salt tax.
b. To yield in return, make up (an amount).
1868Sat. Rev. 1 Aug. 151/1 Securing to the shareholders dividends that in three or four years would recoup their whole capital. 1870Echo 7 Nov., It is estimated that the aggregate cost of the whole..will be {pstlg}150,000, and that the amount realised by the sale of land, &c.,..will recoup about {pstlg}50,000 or {pstlg}60,000.
Hence reˈcoupable, deductible; reˈcouper, one who recoups or keeps back. (In recent Dicts.)
1885Law Rep. 14 Q.B.D. 491 The dead rent to be recoupable out of royalties during the first sixteen years. |