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reimbursable

reimbursable

1 4.9
Can be paid back to the person who paid for it
  • adjective
  • /ˌriːɪmˈbɜːrsəbl/
translation icon : reembolsable
  • Many parents used flexible financial assistance to pay for therapies, medications, adaptive equipment, and home adaptations that were not reimbursable by medical insurance or other providers.
  • reimbursable meal
  • reimbursable services

How can you get reimbursable activity?

Examples

  • Employees are reminded that only approved purchases are reimbursable with proper documentation.

  • - Some things are not reimbursable.

    Skin Deep (1989)

  • Provide states with an enhanced federal matching rate of an additional six percentage points for reimbursable expenses in the program.

    Blog text (11)

  • Managers approved or disapproved reimbursable expenses online.

    Academic text (1996)

  • This school does not outsource their food service, but they are on the federal school lunch program, providing USDA reimbursable meals to the students, most of which are reheated, reconstituted packaged foods.

    Super Size Me (2004)

  • The travel expenses for the work conference are fully reimbursable by the company.

  • If you keep all the receipts, you can ensure that your costs are reimbursable during tax season.

Synonyms

refundable
vsreimbursable
9 3.4

Able to have money given back to the person who paid

is for costs a person incurred during work or travel
repayable
vsreimbursable
3.9

Money you must pay back to the person or bank who lent it

is for eligible expense costs, not a required loan obligation

How Recoverable

recoverable
9 4.2
recoupable
1 6.5
reimbursable
1 4.9

Surface Forms

reimbursable positive

Morphology

reimbursable = reimburse (transparent) = reimburse + able

Formed by adding the productive adjective-forming suffix '-able' to the verb 'reimburse', yielding 'able to be reimbursed'.

Etymology

Reimbursable comes from the parts re- meaning 'back', an old root bursa meaning 'purse', and the ending -able meaning 'able to be'. So it once meant putting money 'back into the purse', which is why reimbursable means an expense that can be paid back or refunded.