verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
recoup your investment (= get back the money that you have invested )
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Investors will have to take legal action to recoup their investment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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cost
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This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.
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The company expects to recoup its capital costs in less than two years.
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After pointing out that it would take fifteen years to recoup the cost from fuel saved, the department had reluctantly agreed.
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Classical stations are often worth millions of dollars, and only can recoup their cost through mass-appeal programming.
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The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs .
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The government has spent £1 billion on the Expo site alone and expects to recoup the cost from the visitors.
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It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.
costs
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This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.
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The company expects to recoup its capital costs in less than two years.
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The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs .
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It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant, and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour.
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The finance branch simply wants charges that are high enough to recoup the costs of building and running the plant.
investment
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Photo: Ian Jackson How are you going to recoup your investment ?
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Companies that sponsor public schools, for example, can expect to recoup their investment in ten years.
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Sears is yet to recoup its investment in Discover.
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In addition, competition may mean that we are unable to recoup our initial investment even if we win the contract.
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Twentieth Century-Fox, desperate to recoup its investment , negotiated a new deal with David Merrick, producer of the stage show.
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It needs time to recoup its investment in Pentium, and still has plenty left to milk in the 80486.
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Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment .
loss
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They recouped some of the losses late in the day.
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Other pharmaceuticals recouped some of their losses on the back of Glaxo's late recovery.
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If the homeowner can not meet the loan payments, the lender can foreclose and resell the house to recoup the loss .
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Older women, especially widows, have particular problems in recouping their losses .
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Olaf died in battle, attempting to recoup his losses .
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When the time comes, it can recoup any water loss and rehydrate very rapidly, although not by drinking.
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But unless covered by his own insurance, the second renter may have to sue the negligent tenant to recoup the losses .
money
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Without a theatrical release in their own domestic market, they stood little chance of recouping the money lavished on them.
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The garage was later sold to Nissan for £200,000, allowing creditors to recoup some of the money they had lost.
sale
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The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales , leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She put $50 on the next race in an attempt to recoup her losses.
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The dentist gives treatment for free and then recoups the cost from the government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But unless covered by his own insurance, the second renter may have to sue the negligent tenant to recoup the losses.
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If the homeowner can not meet the loan payments, the lender can foreclose and resell the house to recoup the loss.
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Olaf died in battle, attempting to recoup his losses.
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San Marcos seeks to recoup more than $ 4 million it was forced to allocate for low-income housing.
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The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales, leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m.
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This is a means of making sure that they recoup their costs and prevents swaths of customers switching to better deals.
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Twentieth Century-Fox, desperate to recoup its investment, negotiated a new deal with David Merrick, producer of the stage show.