recoup
verb (formal)- recoup something
to get back an amount of money that you have spent or lost synonym recover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. 该公司希望用这种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’.