MEANING
To recover money, losses, or a position after an earlier setback or expenditure.
Use it for
Use for recovery of money, effort, or advantage.Describe an attempt to regain resources after a loss.
Words that belong together
- recoup costs
- recoup losses
- recoup an investment
On the page
She hoped to recoup the travel costs by selling the photographs.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- recoup
- Past tense
- recouped
- Past participle
- recouped
- Present participle
- recouping
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- recoup
- Present continuous
- am/is/are recouping
- Present perfect
- have/has recouped
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been recouping
- Past
- recouped
- Past continuous
- was/were recouping
- Past perfect
- had recouped
- Past perfect continuous
- had been recouping
- Future
- will recoup
- Future continuous
- will be recouping
- Future perfect
- will have recouped
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been recouping
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
Often takes costs, losses, or an investment as its object; recovery may be partial.
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