reimbursed

past tense of reimburse
as in repaid
to make a return payment to make sure you keep your receipts so we can reimburse you for your expenses

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Recent Examples of reimbursed While the Constitution demands that members of Congress never go without pay and federal law mandates that federal employees are eventually reimbursed with back pay, the same is not true for workers contracted by the federal government. Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025 The region’s Head Start sites incur costs on their own but are reimbursed on a monthly basis through federal grants. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025 Corey Holcomb, who runs a Head Start program in Michigan, told Turner that her agency secured two more weeks of funding by pulling from other resources with the hopes that they will be reimbursed. NPR, 30 Oct. 2025 Here at San Onofre, the feds have reimbursed Edison nearly $400 million for babysitting waste between 1998 and 2016, Edison recently told us. Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025 Trump reimbursed Cohen in monthly installments that prosecutors said amounted to falsified records. Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2025 Grant recipients would have to return the state funds if they're later reimbursed by insurance or federal assistance. Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025 The items are uninsured, meaning that the country would not be reimbursed for their loss if police fail to turn up the missing pieces. News Desk, Artforum, 27 Oct. 2025 If the shutdown ends before the week finishes, the extra funds would be reimbursed to the state, officials said. Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reimbursed
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  • Select members were recruited as handlers for Daedone’s wealthy boyfriend, whose massive loans to the company were apparently repaid on an installment plan of blow jobs.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The loan fund is repaid, replenished, and then reused for the next project.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • In sports, however, where many athletes are extremely well compensated and there’s a team/owner/union dynamic, things are typically a little blurrier.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • But the problem is land in Colorado is not cheap, and Colorado law demands that when eminent domain is used, a person is not only compensated for fair market value but also gets damages for the taking.
    The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Reimbursed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reimbursed. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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