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Obtainment vs Recoupment - What's the difference?

obtainment | recoupment |

As nouns the difference between obtainment and recoupment

is that obtainment is the act of obtaining something; attainment while recoupment is a recovery of what had been lost.

obtainment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of obtaining something; attainment

    • recoupment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recovery of what had been lost.
  • * 1879 , John Neilson Taylor, A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant , page 321
    • The doctrine of recoupment is of recent growth, hardly preceding in its origin the beginning of the present century.

    Related terms

    * recoup