different between reparation vs imburse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reparatio, reparationis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)

1. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).

   • I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

2. (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

   the reparation of a bridge or of a highway

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

     The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.

Synonyms

• (a payment): restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction
• (a renewing): restoration, repair

Related terms

• repair
• reparative

Translations

See also

• war reparations

Anagrams

• Praetorian, Prætorian, praetorian, prætorian

Swedish

Etymology

reparera +? -tion

Noun

reparation c

1. a repair (mending something broken)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin imburs?re, Late Latin imburs?re, from Latin im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside’ usually affixed to verbs)) + bursa (“animal skin, oxhide; purse (usually made of leather or skin); supply of money, funds”) (from Ancient Greek ?????? (búrsa, “animal skin; skin stripped off a hide”)); analysable as im- +? burse. The word is cognate with Old French enborser (modern French embourser), Italian imborsare, Spanish embolsar (“to bag”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?b??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?b?s/
• Hyphenation: im?burse

Verb

imburse (third-person singular simple present imburses, present participle imbursing, simple past and past participle imbursed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply with money.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay back money that is owed; to refund, to repay, to reimburse.

Alternative forms

• emborse, emburse (obsolete)

Derived terms

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References

Anagrams

• erbiums, imbrues, imbuers, murbies