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单词 recoup
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recoupn.

Brit. /rᵻˈkuːp/, U.S. /riˈkup/, /rəˈkup/
Forms: see recoup v.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: recoup v.
Etymology: < recoup v. Compare recouper n.1, recoupment n.In sense 1 arising from misinterpretation of ‘to reply quickly and sharpely to a peremptory Demand’ which appears as a gloss of French recouper recoup v. in T. Manley Cowell's Interpreter (1672) at recoupe and also in T. Blount Nomo-lexikon (1670) at recoupe. With the form recoupe compare French recoupe clipping, cutting, waste (14th cent. in Middle French).
1. Law. A quick reply to a peremptory demand. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Recoupe, in Law, is a quick and sharp reply to a peremptory Demand. [Also in later dictionaries.]
2. Law. The reduction or retention of monies due, esp. by an amount owing to the payer. Cf. recouper n.1, recoupment n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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1810 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. Recoupe, the keeping back or stopping something which is due.
1869 T. W. Waterman Treat. Law of Set-off & Recoupment 468 It is evident that recoup or recoupment, in its original sense, was a mere right of reduction from the amount of the plaintiff's recovery.
1871 L. Colange Zell's Pop. Encycl. II. 721/1 Recoupment, Recoupe, act of retaining something due; diminution of a plaintiff's damages. In an action on an agreement, for default in performance on his part.
3. Recompense, reimbursement. Frequently attributive. Cf. recoupment n. 2.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > repayment
again-gift1340
repayment1421
recompense1439
refoundiment1555
paying back1598
refaction1640
refundment1665
refund1711
recouperation1865
recoup1904
balloon1972
1904 H. 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.
1966 Public Administration 44 411 If the recoup mechanism is to do its job.
1996 F. Leonard Thousand Blunders ix. 266 The company overspent during its construction; its financial woes during the war delayed its official completion and the recoup of at least part of its investment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

recoupv.

Brit. /rᵻˈkuːp/, U.S. /riˈkup/, /rəˈkup/
Forms: late Middle English 1700s– recoup, 1600s–1800s recoupe.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French recouper.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Law French recouper (also recoper , recolper ) to curtail, cut short (13th cent.), to recover (a sum, etc.) (13th cent.), to deduct, except (14th cent.), to recompense (15th cent.), specific senses of Anglo-Norman and Middle French recouper (French recouper ) to cut back, reduce (12th cent. in Old French), to interrupt (13th cent.) < re- re- prefix + couper coup v.2
1. transitive. To cut short, interrupt. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt (speech) [verb (transitive)]
forbreakc1374
interrupta1420
recoupc1450
lardc1550
interturb1554
intercept1581
parenthese1635
punctuate1848
puncture1896
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 118 (MED) He wot wel and vnderstant what folk wolden seye and recoupeth here woordes.
2. transitive. Law. To deduct or retain (an amount due to oneself). Also intransitive: to make such a deduction.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal proceedings [verb (transitive)] > deduct or keep back land or money
recoup1628
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 39 The demandant..shall recoupe the third part of the profits.
1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Kkkvb If a man..disseises the Tenant of the Land in an Assise brought by the Disseisee, the Disseisor shall Recoupe the Rent in the Damages.
1711 Law of Covenants 203 If he were sued he should recoup as much of the Rent in his Hands.
1840 J. L. Wendell Rep. Supreme Court N-Y. 22 156 The defendant may, if he choose, instead of suing in his turn, recoupe his damages.
1869 T. W. Waterman Treat. Law of Set-off & Recoupment 152 (note) The defendant might recoup for the damages resulting from the plaintiff's want of skill.
1935 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 83 831 To permit the employer to recoup the damages he has suffered by set off is to enforce the principle of reparation.
1952 Harvard Law Rev. 65 1040 Cases where the Comptroller's opinions caused the disbursing officer either not to pay the approved claim or to recoup the amount paid from other sums owing the contractor.
2004 Mondaq Business Briefing (Nexis) 24 Nov. Actions by the agency to recover the funds, either directly or by way of recouping the obligation from future amounts due to the institution.
3.
a. transitive. With direct and indirect object. To recompense (a person) for a loss or outlay; to repay (a loss or outlay) to a person. Now rare.
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1664 in 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.
1860 C. Reade Eighth Commandment 107 So my partner..had run us into fresh expenses, which he was entitled to be recouped.
1870 Observer 13 Nov. The amounts returned in sale of land..will tend to recoup the Metropolitan Board a considerable amount of their outlay.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 6/3 The Imperial Government do not expect to be recouped one penny on the reductive move.
1906 Times 9 June 9/1 To retain for their own use so much of the amount as was sufficient to recoup them the amount paid.
b. transitive. To recompense, repay (a person); to reimburse for a loss or outlay. Also reflexive: to recover one's losses or expenditure. Also intransitive with reflexive meaning.
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a1715 W. Salkeld Rep. Cases King's Bench (1724) 3 at Executor Evidence being given of what he justly paid, he may be recouped.
1815 Billiard News July 4/2 Whitebait and Lady Patricia recouped their place-money backer.
1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 94 They made reprisals, in the way of pilfering, to recoup themselves for their forced gratuities.
1906 L. 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.
1955 Times 17 May 10/7 Shippers think that one purpose of the latest increase is to recoup shipowners for the losses suffered in last year's dock strike.
1993 Albion 25 120 The attempt of Charles Kemble and his backers to recoup themselves for rebuilding Covent Garden..by raising seat prices.
4.
a. transitive. To compensate for, recover (a loss or outlay).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > bring in (a revenue) > from a previous financial loss
to get upa1535
recoup1764
recuperate1867
1764 Ann. Abstr. Sinking Fund 16 Money brought to accompt of the Sinking Fund, to recoup an over-payment made to the South Sea Company.
1860 C. Reade Eighth Commandment 107 I offered in Court to recoup these expenses incurred.
1880 Standard 11 Dec. How to recoup the loss occasioned to the State revenue by the abolition of the salt tax.
1929 U. B. Phillips Life & Labor in Old South xiv. 287 It must increase the yield by three bushels per acre for two years if the cost of the work were to be recouped.
1969 Times 13 Dec. p. vii/5 He would more than recoup the cost of a 24 in. ride-on type of motor mower.
1998 C. Lansing Power & Purity vii. 142 Filippo was imprisoned, the property was destroyed, and the buyer was left hopelessly trying to recoup her investment.
b. transitive. To yield (an amount) in return; to make back.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > bring in (a revenue)
raise1389
levy1469
to pull in?1529
to fetch again1535
to bring in?1548
yield1573
produce1585
answer1596
in1609
render1687
net1758
rent1775
realize1777
earn1847
recoup1868
1868 Sat. Rev. 1 Aug. 151/1 Securing to the shareholders dividends that in three or four years would recoup their whole capital.
1870 Echo 7 Nov. It is estimated that the aggregate cost of the whole..will be £150,000, and that the amount realised by the sale of land, &c.,..will recoup about £50,000 or £60,000.
1937 Columbia Law Rev. 37 810 The great bulk of the capital investment was recouped..by the sale to the ‘preferred list’.
1988 Crain's Chicago Business 10 Oct. 3 William Farley's bleeding industrial empire stands to recoup millions of dollars.
2003 Budget Living Apr.–May 76/2 Major home improvements where even the most cost-effective projects..will recoup only 80 to 90 cents for each dollar spent.
5. transitive. To regain (lost health, strength, vitality, etc.). Also intransitive: to recuperate. [Probably arising from confusion with recuperate v. Compare recouperation n.]
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)]
wholeeOE
botenc1225
cover1297
amendc1325
recovera1375
warisha1386
recovera1387
healc1390
recurec1400
soundc1402
mendc1440
convalesce1483
guarish1489
restore1494
refete?a1505
revert1531
to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589
cure1597
recruit1644
to perk upa1656
retrieve1675
to pick up1740
to leave one's bed1742
to sit up and take nourishment1796
to get round1798
to come round1818
to pull through1830
rally1831
to fetch round1870
to mend up1877
to pull round1889
recoup1896
recuperate1897
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > be or become restored [verb (intransitive)]
recruit1646
retrieve1759
redintegrate1788
to lift up one's head1838
recoup1896
regroup1968
1896 Times 21 Aug. 3/6 He will leave London early this morning, probably for some quiet seaside resort, to recoup his health there before returning to Ireland.
1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives iv. 79 We have sent her away for two years running to help her to recoup.
1955 O. Manning Doves of Venus i.vii. 80 Alma spent half of each year on the continent recouping from the rigours of English life.
1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love iv. 205 In April 1894 he went alone to Bournemouth, where he tried to recoup his strength.
2000 G. Santoro Myself when I am Real (2001) x. 229 He was torqued up, needed to recoup.

Derivatives

reˈcoupable adj.
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1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 491 The dead rent to be recoupable out of royalties during the first sixteen years.
1947 Times 27 Feb. 9/5 Minimum rents recoupable will be satisfied by separate compensation.
1997 Neon Sept. 12/1 The recoupable loss of earnings on an A-list star will be higher than that of a humble building worker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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