different between recoupment vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From recoup +? -ment

Noun

recoupment (countable and uncountable, plural recoupments)

1. A recovery of what had been lost; reimbursement.
   • 1879, John Neilson Taylor, A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant, page 321

     The doctrine of recoupment is of recent growth, hardly preceding in its origin the beginning of the present century.

2. (law) A reduction of the plaintiff's damages by keeping out a part.

Related terms

• recoup

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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