Rebate vs Recoup - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between rebate and recoup

is that rebate is while recoup is to make back, as an investment.

(en noun)

A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.

The return of part of an amount already paid.

(photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.

A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.

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A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

* (wikipedia "rebate") * * PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography

(rebat)

To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment

To diminish or lessen something

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

* Shakespeare

But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.

To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something

To abate; to withdraw.

(Foxe)

(en verb)

To make back, as an investment.

He barely managed to recoup his money. He sold out for just what he had invested.

to recoup losses made at the gaming table

To recover from an error.

(legal) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct.

A landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive.

* Froude

Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost.

* Duke of Argyll

Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom.

* recoupable * recoupment