recoup

verb
🔊/rɪˈkuːp/
🔊/rɪˈkuːp/
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they recoup
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he / she / it recoups
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past simple recouped
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past participle recouped
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-ing form recouping
🔊/rɪˈkuːpɪŋ/
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  1. recoup something to get back an amount of money that you have spent or lost收回(成本);弥补(亏损) synonym recover
    • We hope to recoup our initial investment in the first year.我们希望我们的前期投资在第一年就能赚回来。🔊🔊
    • The firm is hoping to recoup losses on car sales in the UK with this new model.该公司希望通过这种新车型来弥补英国汽车销售的损失。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryRecoup is used with these nouns as the object:
    • cost
    • expense
    • investment
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (as a legal term): from French recouper ‘retrench, cut back’, from re- ‘back’ + couper ‘to cut’.