Imburse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪmˈbəːs/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Imburse is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
Meaning
(transitive, obsolete) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
More Meanings
- (transitive, obsolete) To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply with money.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pay back money that is owed; to refund, to repay, to reimburse.
Example Sentences
In such information systems, the period of a debt instrument shrinks to nano-seconds. Huge magnitudes of money are imbursed and transmitted.
Our Club cannot prosper unless we emburse / The Treasurer's wallet,—nay, quite the reverse, / From bad we shall only be getting to worse, / For the bowstring is strung by unstringing the purse; […]
The Adivasis are unable to bear the burden of their children's education on account of their unsatisfactory economic condition. In the light of these facts this department has been imbursing the fees of the Adivasi students […]
He had shed his blood for the Queen Isabella Segunda and her exemplary mamma, Marie Christina, on the arid plains of Catalonia; and the ungrateful Isabella had neglected to imburse him his large arrears of pay-pension and allowances; […]
Word Forms
- imburses
- imbursing
- imbursed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include emburse, purse, impocket, pouch, intreasure, instore.
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