Recoup vs Coupon - What's the difference?
recoup | coupon |
To make back, as an investment.
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.
To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive.
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* Duke of Argyll
(obsolete) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
(finance) Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
(Scotland) The face.
As a verb recoup
is to make back, as an investment.As a noun coupon is
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English
Verb
(en verb)- He barely managed to recoup his money. He sold out for just what he had invested.
- to recoup losses made at the gaming table
- A landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.
- Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost.
- Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom.