REIMBURSEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reimbursement mean? 

• REIMBURSEMENT (noun)
  The noun REIMBURSEMENT has 1 sense:

1. compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.

  Familiarity information: REIMBURSEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REIMBURSEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

he received reimbursement for his travel expenses

Hypernyms ("reimbursement" is a kind of...):

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reimbursement"):

allowance (a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses)

breakage (reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use)

costs (pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation)

Derivation:

reimburse (reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss)

reimburse (pay back for some expense incurred)

 Context examples 

Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)