What's the difference between recoup and recuperate?

Recoup


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Alt. of Recoupe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We fought back and we won,” she said, boasting that the CFPB had already recouped $4bn for ordinary people from major financial institutions.
  • (2) Trading decisions should be pragmatic, but they're not, especially when you're trying to recoup losses like he was."
  • (3) They do this because they have already recouped research & development (R&D) costs.
  • (4) Yet thanks to that expensive education, over the course of their lives college graduates are bound to recoup all the money they spent getting their degree – and much more, says the New York Fed.
  • (5) His company, the People's Lottery, may now pursue legal action to recoup some or all of the £30m it claims it spent on the bid.
  • (6) The situation leaves companies and researchers in the dark about how much the NHS would pay for the new treatments, and casts uncertainty over whether they can earn enough to recoup their costs, the report says.
  • (7) In a speech to be delivered at the headquarters of Recoup, a charity that promotes and supports plastic recycling initiatives, Defra minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach will argue that waste plastics represent one of the easiest and most cost-effective areas for the UK to meet its binding recycling targets.
  • (8) The couple’s meals cost $1,860 while another item – described as “special cleaning” – was listed as costing $6,900 although it was unclear whether that was actually charged or recouped.
  • (9) It remains to be seen if the cost of subsidising the banks will eventually be recouped by the taxpayer."
  • (10) Following a pre-West End run in Liverpool, the show recouped its entire £750,000 outlay only six weeks after opening in London.
  • (11) We’ve had decades of that.” South Australia and New South Wales welcomed the proposal as a way to recoup some of the money taken from the states in the 2014 federal election.
  • (12) Other banks could be forced to follow suit if the OFT wins the case, but some experts have warned that the banks could introduce fees for ATM withdrawals and other day-to-day banking in an attempt to recoup the money they make through charges – estimated to be around £4bn a year.
  • (13) Hughes said: "It was his explicit case that he believed he was entitled to say that he had stayed the night in London when he hadn't, and incurred costs in travel when he hadn't, in order to recoup the shortfall of rent that was not payable under the expenses system, and research assistant costs which were likewise not payable.
  • (14) Ministers hope to recoup much of this money by selling off these investments.
  • (15) The ExCo also expressed its support for the request for restitution made by Fifa on Wednesday to recoup tens of millions of US dollars from corrupt officials.
  • (16) Two thirds of the €30bn the French public purse has to recoup will come from tax rises – a percentage that would have Ed Balls exiting stage right – and one third from a public spending freeze.
  • (17) Analysts forecast that the Sun needed to attract at least 250,000 - and perhaps more than 350,000 - paying subscribers to Sun+ in order to cover the loss of online advertising and recoup the tens of millions of pounds forked out for deals including digital Premier League football highlights.
  • (18) Sarah Peters, retail analyst at Verdict Research, said: "It is worth remembering that we've had a month of poor weather in May, which has kept shoppers away, so this weekend is more about recouping the losses."
  • (19) Cherished projects will be delayed, cut or dumped in an attempt to recoup a massive overspend in Britain's defence budget, which faces a black hole of £36bn.
  • (20) • Employ 50,000-100,000 people to monitor and recoup income from tax avoidance and evasion.

Recuperate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
  • (v. t.) To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper describes a case with symptomless enlarged submandibular glands, the bioptic findings which were suggesting the diagnosis of sialadenosis, the verification of the underlying disorder by child psychiatry, and the recuperation of the boy during puberty.
  • (2) The assessment of the infant's capacity to organize positive interaction experiences with a nurturing adult has led us to better understand the plasticity process which permits the neonate's recuperation form damage to the central nervous system (CNS).
  • (3) Recovery from muscle fatigue after exercise is known to have two beneficial effects: improved blood lactate elimination and a central nervous recuperation of the capacity for exercise.
  • (4) The above system has aided the parents by showing them that the child can be organized and that its health is recuperable, even after damage to the CNS or premature birth.
  • (5) Thus the parents can utilize their nurturing capacities in their relationship with the child to bring about the best recuperation possible.
  • (6) The same results were obtained before day 21 after MPTP in a parkinsonian monkey that did not recuperate.
  • (7) Informing the parents in question of our observations and approach in order to improve the child's behaviour has resulted in gained confidence and cooperation, and therefore optimum recuperation.
  • (8) Recuperation of the initial structure is definitively obtained during the 2nd month.
  • (9) As regards the direction of the recuperation front, it was established that, at any age, the preferential orientation is caudal, with a deviation to the left in a high percentage of the 20 day to 3 month old pigs, and ventral in all individuals.
  • (10) There was partial restauration of the disc space in 2 cases; the last one presented signs of late collapse after early recuperation.
  • (11) On a personal note, Madikizela-Mandela continues: "I have been in and out of hospital since the 25th January this year, not even one phone call from Luthuli House [ANC headquarters], instead you gave an interview saying I was recuperating from an ankle operation when you did not even care what kind of an operation I had.
  • (12) These experiments suggested the possibility that mu-agonists might enhance cardiovascular recuperation following acute hemorrhagic shock.
  • (13) A government official said Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was badly burned in the attack on 3 June, was discharged in Riyadh on Saturday night and moved to a residence in the city owned by the Saudi royal family to recuperate.
  • (14) Yemeni officials accuse Mobley of shooting two guards, killing one, at the hospital where he was recuperating from the wound in his leg in what they say was a March 2010 escape attempt.
  • (15) The sample consisted of 32 mother-infant dyads: 16 having normal DQ (Group A) and 16 having a below normal DQ (Group B) according to Bailey's Test applied to infants who entered a Nutritional Recuperation Center.
  • (16) The long-term effect of the recuperating stay lasts for 9 months.
  • (17) This paper reports a case of left hemidiaphragmatic paralysis in an instructor pilot and his later recuperation.
  • (18) Spontaneous recuperation with less frequent episodes in adolescence is common, and complications are rare, so that we consider symptomatic treatment appropriate, reserving surgical treatment for complicated cases.
  • (19) Nevertheless, this surgery, while not devoid of complications, permits important functional recuperation in a good number of cases (71.2%).
  • (20) This seems to be due to powerful adaptive mechanisms in the regulation of deposition and dissociation of excessive amounts of active serotonin as well as to the morpho-functional recuperation in the transcapillary exchange.