re·coup
verb/rɪˈkuːp/
/rɪˈkuːp/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recoup | /rɪˈkuːp/ /rɪˈkuːp/ |
| he / she / it recoups | /rɪˈkuːps/ /rɪˈkuːps/ |
| past simple recouped | /rɪˈkuːpt/ /rɪˈkuːpt/ |
| past participle recouped | /rɪˈkuːpt/ /rɪˈkuːpt/ |
| -ing form recouping | /rɪˈkuːpɪŋ/ /rɪˈkuːpɪŋ/ |
- recoup something to get back an amount of money that you have spent or lost
收回（成本）；弥补（亏损） - We hope to recoup our initial investment in the first year.
我们希望我们的前期投资在第一年就能赚回来。 - The firm is hoping to recoup losses on car sales in the UK with this new model.
该公司希望通过这款新车型弥补英国汽车销售的损失。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRecoup is used with these nouns as the object:- cost
- expense
- investment
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (as a legal term): from French recouper ‘retrench, cut back’, from re- ‘back’ + couper ‘to cut’. - We hope to recoup our initial investment in the first year.