Usually means: Recover or regain money spent.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word recoup:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. recoup: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. recoup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recoup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recoup: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recoup: Vocabulary.com
  6. Recoup, recoup, recoup: Wordnik
  7. recoup: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. recoup: Wiktionary
  9. recoup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. recoup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. recoup: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. recoup: Dictionary.com
  13. recoup: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. recoup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Recoup: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. recoup: Rhymezone
  17. recoup: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. recoup: Free Dictionary
  19. recoup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. recoup: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. recoup: Legal dictionary
  4. recoup: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recoup: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. recoup: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. recoup: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See recoupable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make back (an investment or similar).
verb:  (intransitive) To recover from an error.
verb:  (law, transitive) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct.
verb:  (transitive) To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive voice.

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