recoup
verb /rɪˈkuːp/
/rɪˈkuːp/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recoup | /rɪˈkuːp/ /rɪˈkuːp/ |
| he / she / it recoups | /rɪˈkuːps/ /rɪˈkuːps/ |
| past simple recouped | /rɪˈkuːpt/ /rɪˈkuːpt/ |
| past participle recouped | /rɪˈkuːpt/ /rɪˈkuːpt/ |
| -ing form recouping | /rɪˈkuːpɪŋ/ /rɪˈkuːpɪŋ/ |
- recoup something to get back an amount of money that you have spent or lost synonym recover
- We hope to recoup our initial investment in the first year.
- The firm is hoping to recoup losses on car sales in the UK with this new model.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRecoup is used with these nouns as the object:- cost
- expense
- investment
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (as a legal term): from French recouper ‘retrench, cut back’, from re- ‘back’ + couper ‘to cut’.