reimbursev.

1591 Advt. from Britany & Low Countries ii. sig. D3^v The Duke of Parma reneweth his demaund of fiue thousand poundes by the moneth, and would haue it to bee leuied for sixe moneths before hand vppon the walled Townes, and they afterwardes, to collect and reimburse the same vppon the countrie and villages.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rembourser, to reimburse; to repay, restore, or giue backe, money spent, etc.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1671 (1955) III. 583 The mony we laied out to be reimbours'd us out of the contingent monies already set apart for us.

1733–4 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley vi. 218 You will also remember to take bonds for the money, to be reimbursed for the Deanery-house.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) Pref. 5 It will a good deal fall short of reimbursing my expences.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. i. 10 The tardy sale of so voluminous a work could not have reimbursed the cost.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 231 The capital..he reckoned at 10,000,000 guilders, which four prosperous trips would amply reimburse.

1902 W. H. Chantrey Theatre Accts. ii. 24 There seems no necessity in a Theatre to have a Petty Cash Account, as each week the treasurer will reimburse all the small amounts which have been laid out by the various members of the staff.

1972 T. Williams Let. 17 Oct. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 275 I had only required of him that he take care of my cat: he did not bother to buy her cat-food although I had assured him the expense would be reimbursed.

2002 L. Gold Good Hosp. Guide 27 If you are attending an NHS hospital or disablement services centre, you are eligible to have your travel costs reimbursed.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia Pref. 1 The issue may well reimburse you your summes expended.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 257 Till he be reimbursed the money that he hath laid out.

a1745 J. Swift Story Injured Lady (1746) 6 It was but reasonable..to reimburse him some of his Charges.

1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 294 It was decreed, that the parishioners should reimburse the plaintiff the money laid out by her testator, with costs of this suit.

1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 390 If he had consented to be reimbursed this expenditure he would have received bonds..for this sum of money.

1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 251 His friends in Leadenhall Street proposed to reimburse him the costs of his trial.

1914 Times 27 May 24/5 A wrongdoer who put a third party in the position of having to pay money could be made to reimburse him the expenses to which he had been put.

1994 Skydiving Feb. 22 We will reimburse owners $10 for shipping, send the unit back free of charge, and also pay $40 for a reserve repack.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. iii. 85 I'll strip him soon of all to her pertains, And make him reimburse his ill-got Gains.

1812 J. Marsden Leisure Hours 43 There is a treasure in the sky, To reimburse the Christian's loss.

a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) iv. 200 Life is an outlay for infinite blessings or curses—Evil or Good—which Eternity's Bank reimburses.

1644 P. Francis Answer sig. A3^v Ordered..that a particuler day may be set for a publike thanksgiving in the towne of Plymouth and..that the house will see him reimbursed.

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 112 The poore men to be reimbursed.

1673 J. Dryden Assignation v. iii. 67 You'll find occasion instantly to reimburse me of my kindness.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 4 They are willing to reimburse us a little.

1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 266 The Colonists were reimbursed by Parliament of all the expences incurred by them in this expedition.

1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) v. iii. 82 You may reimburse me at your leisure.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxv. 251 They had disbursed money largely,..with the certainty that they should never be reimbursed unless the outlay proved beneficial to the public.

1918 T. S. Eliot Let. 20 Nov. (1988) I. 257 The affair dragged on for some weeks, and finally I returned to my work at Lloyds Bank, as there seemed to be no prospect of the Navy's reimbursing me for the time I was losing.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xiv. 478 The balance, he said, would be cleared at once, and Adam was to be re-imbursed further, for what he had paid Droughty Tom.

2004 Independent 22 July (Review section) 5/5 So, my friend has paid £45 for a ticket that never reached her, and now won't be reimbursed because the company can't be arsed to work the insurance procedure they made her pay for.

1650 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 16. 207 That the said Committee do re-imburse themselves, the said Two hundred pounds out of the Two thousand pounds Fine, formerly imposed on M. Abraham Reynaldson late Alderman of London.

1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 13 Their correspondents to reimburse themselves, Redraw on them, or on their Agents in other places.

1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 14 Hath he saved any other Kingdom at his own Expence, to give him a Title of Re-imbursing himself by the Destruction of ours?

1791 G. F. A. Wendeborn View Eng. I. 267 When government lays a small tax upon a commodity which is much in use, those who sell it..will not seldom take the advantage.., and under pretence of an increased tax, reimburse themselves perhaps ten-fold.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 58 He felt no scruple of conscience in resolving to reimburse himself for his losses.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxv. 289 Eager to reimburse themselves for this humiliation, they now formed a conspiracy..to seize the government.

1920 Columbia Law Rev. 20 923 Thus the holder of a protested bill may re-draw on the endorser to re-imburse himself for the new exchange.

1994 Wilmington (N. Carolina) Star-News 9 Dec. b2 She deposited money in her own bank account to reimburse herself for purchases or restaurant bills.