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RECOUP

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments

Example:

My employer is withholding taxes

Synonyms:

deduct; recoup; withhold

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recoup" is one way to...):

hold on; keep (retain possession of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recoup"):

dock (deduct from someone's wages)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They recoup the money

Sense 2

Meaning:

Regain or make up for

Example:

recuperate one's losses

Synonyms:

recoup; recover; recuperate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recoup" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recoup"):

catch up with; make up (make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss

Synonyms:

recoup; reimburse

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recoup" is one way to...):

compensate; recompense; remunerate (make payment to; compensate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

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