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Recoup vs Reclaim - What's the difference?

recoup | reclaim |

In lang=en terms the difference between recoup and reclaim

is that recoup is to reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive while reclaim is to tame or domesticate a wild animal.

As verbs the difference between recoup and reclaim

is that recoup is to make back, as an investment while reclaim is (senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use.

As a noun reclaim is

(obsolete|falconry) the calling back of a hawk.

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

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    reclaim

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (senseid)To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  • To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  • To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
  • * Milton
    • They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.
  • * Rogers
    • It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
  • * Sir E. Hoby
    • Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.
  • To claim something back; to repossess.
  • To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  • * Dryden
    • an eagle well reclaimed
  • To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • * Dryden
    • The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
  • To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • * Waterland
    • Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.
  • * Bain
    • At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
    (Fuller)
  • (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
    • (Spenser)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
  • (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].
  • An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

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