Definition of "recoup"

recoup

/ɹɪˈkuːp/

verb
third-person singular simple present recoups, present participle recouping, simple past and past participle recouped
1. To make back, as an investment.
  Quotations
  In July British Railways installed train-operated red-and-white level crossing half-barriers of a new design at 11 places, [...] The cost is given at £800 a pair, which can be readily recouped on savings in the cost of manning ordinary gated crossings.
  1964 August, “News and Comment: New BR standard half-barrier”, in Modern Railways, page 88
2. To recover from an error.
3. (law) 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.
4. (transitive) To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive.
  Quotations
  Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost.
  1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volumes (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
  Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom.
  1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is

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