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Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Minus(money)
minus(medicine)
Minus(finance)
QUO MINUS(law)
minus(dictionary)
Zero minus tick(finance)
labium minus(medicine)
minus strand(medicine)

recoupe (medicine) and Minus (finance)


recoupe (medicine)


recoupe


1. To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

2. To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.

3. To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive. "Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost." (Froude) "Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom." (Duke of Argyll)

Origin: F. Recouper; pref. Re- re- + couper to cut.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Minus (finance)


The symbol (-) that precedes the change figure in a stock table to indicate a closing sale lower than that of the previous day.