recoupment

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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.