RECOUP


Meaning of RECOUP in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

recoup your investment (= get back the money that you have invested )

Investors will have to take legal action to recoup their investment.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cost

This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.

The company expects to recoup its capital costs in less than two years.

After pointing out that it would take fifteen years to recoup the cost from fuel saved, the department had reluctantly agreed.

Classical stations are often worth millions of dollars, and only can recoup their cost through mass-appeal programming.

The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs .

The government has spent £1 billion on the Expo site alone and expects to recoup the cost from the visitors.

It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.

costs

This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.

The company expects to recoup its capital costs in less than two years.

The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs .

It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.

The finance branch simply wants charges that are high enough to recoup the costs of building and running the plant.

investment

Photo: Ian Jackson How are you going to recoup your investment ?

Companies that sponsor public schools, for example, can expect to recoup their investment in ten years.

Sears is yet to recoup its investment in Discover.

In addition, competition may mean that we are unable to recoup our initial investment even if we win the contract.

Twentieth Century-Fox, desperate to recoup its investment , negotiated a new deal with David Merrick, producer of the stage show.

It needs time to recoup its investment in Pentium, and still has plenty left to milk in the 80486.

Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment .

loss

They recouped some of the losses late in the day.

Other pharmaceuticals recouped some of their losses on the back of Glaxo's late recovery.

If the homeowner can not meet the loan payments, the lender can foreclose and resell the house to recoup the loss .

Older women, especially widows, have particular problems in recouping their losses .

Olaf died in battle, attempting to recoup his losses .

When the time comes, it can recoup any water loss and rehydrate very rapidly, although not by drinking.

But unless covered by his own insurance, the second renter may have to sue the negligent tenant to recoup the losses .

money

Without a theatrical release in their own domestic market, they stood little chance of recouping the money lavished on them.

The garage was later sold to Nissan for £200,000, allowing creditors to recoup some of the money they had lost.

sale

The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales , leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

She put $50 on the next race in an attempt to recoup her losses.

The dentist gives treatment for free and then recoups the cost from the government.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But unless covered by his own insurance, the second renter may have to sue the negligent tenant to recoup the losses.

If the homeowner can not meet the loan payments, the lender can foreclose and resell the house to recoup the loss.

Olaf died in battle, attempting to recoup his losses.

San Marcos seeks to recoup more than $ 4 million it was forced to allocate for low-income housing.

The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales, leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m.

This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.

Twentieth Century-Fox, desperate to recoup its investment, negotiated a new deal with David Merrick, producer of the stage show.

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