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recoup | null |

As a verb recoup

is to make back, as an investment.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

recoup

English

Verb

(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.

    Derived terms

    * recoupable * recoupment

    Anagrams

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----