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Imprest vs Impest - What's the difference?

imprest | impest |

As verbs the difference between imprest and impest

is that imprest is to advance on loan while impest is (obsolete|transitive) to afflict with pestilence.

As a noun imprest

is an advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee.

imprest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee.
  • *1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 240:
  • *:Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To advance on loan.
    • (Burke)

    See also

    * impressed

    Anagrams

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    impest

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To afflict with pestilence.
    • (Webster 1913)