recoupable
- adjective
- /rɪˈkuːpəbl/
- Each image stands alone, unaccompanied by any caption or explanatory text whatsoever—and that in a photo essay pervaded by images of humans, the key to whose identity is recoupable only within a highly specific system of historical and political reference.
Examples
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In New York City, 600,000 tons of newsprint enter the waste stream every year, making the total potentially recoupable value of this material about $15 million per year.
Academic text (1991) -
The cropped image of a sign, perhaps a sign that was part of the material culture of the German Democratic Republic, is one of many truncated, only partially recoupable texts in U-ni-ty.
Academic text (2003) -
We have to be honest about the tools that we use to survive, and why is a black life any more recoupable than a white life?
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The money spent on the project was recoupable through future sales.
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After the flood, the community worked hard to recover their recoupable losses.
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Investors are optimistic that their recoupable costs will be restored soon.
Synonyms
Able to have money given back to the person who paid
Able to be found or returned after being lost
You can find again, often with effort
Able to receive money for work done or for a loss
Can be paid back to the person who paid for it
Something you can get back and use again
Antonyms
How Recoverable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recoupable comes from recoup, which starts with re- meaning 'again' and a root that once meant 'to take back'. So something recoupable can be 'gotten back' later, especially money or costs.