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reimbursement

noun/ˌriːɪmˈbɜːsmənt/

B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The repayment of money spent or lost by another party.

The insurer sought reimbursement of the medical costs it had already paid out.

Similar: repayment, refund

Topic: Tort in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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