recoupment
Regaining what's lost
Recoupment is the act of recovering money that was lost or spent.
In legal and financial contexts, it often refers to deducting what you're owed from what you owe someone else: The label deducted recording costs from royalties as recoupment.
Insurance companies speak of recoupment when clawing back overpayments.
The word carries a formal, administrative tone.
Giving back what's owed
- reimbursementPayment for incurred expenses
- returnGo back again
- profitGain exceeding expenditure
- earningsMoney gained from work
revenue · yield · gain · dividends · investment · capital · savings · returns
Compensation for injury
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- remedyCurative treatment or fix
- indemnityProtection against financial loss
restitution · compensation · litigation · plaintiff · defendant · verdict · liability · breach
Compensation for injury
- reparationCompensation for injury done
- indemnificationCompensation for loss suffered
- amendsCompensation for wrongdoing
- remunerationPayment for work done
satisfaction · rectification · atonement · adjustment · disbursement · refund · repayment · remittance
Amount still owed
- debtMoney owed another
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- defaultPreset standard option
- arrearsOverdue financial obligations
insolvency · bankruptcy · devaluation · impairment · liabilities · restoration · mitigation · salvage
repayment
Giving back what's owed
- reimbursementPayment for incurred expenses
- returnGo back again
- profitGain exceeding expenditure
earnings · revenue · yield · gain · dividends · investment · capital · savings · returns · assets
damages
Compensation for injury
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- remedyCurative treatment or fix
indemnity · restitution · compensation · litigation · plaintiff · defendant · verdict · liability · breach · contract
redress
Compensation for injury
- reparationCompensation for injury done
- indemnificationCompensation for loss suffered
- amendsCompensation for wrongdoing
remuneration · satisfaction · rectification · atonement · adjustment · disbursement · refund · repayment · remittance · subsidy
deficit
Amount still owed
arrears · insolvency · bankruptcy · devaluation · impairment · liabilities · restoration · mitigation · salvage · redemption
- royaltiesmusic royalties, streaming royalties, artist royalties, royalty payments, oil royalties
- theater financebox office, ticket sales, ticket prices, ticket pricing, producers
- court filingscomplaint, motion to dismiss, counterclaim, pleading, cross-claim
- legal defensesself-defense, alibi, affirmative defense, insanity defense, insanity
- legal remediesinjunctions, injunction, damages, restitution, restraining order
- music rightsmusic copyright, copyright, music rights, music royalties, performance rights
recoupmentloss
Being without something
financial loss · deficit · forfeiture · net loss · expense
recoupmentabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
forfeiture · relinquishment · surrender · waiver · giving up
recover, recovery, recovering, recovered, recoup, recompense, recuperate, recoveries, recuperation