Daily Word: RECOUP

re·coup

  [ri-koop] 

~verb (used with object)

Definition: 1) To get back the equivalent of. 2) To regain or recover. 3) To reimburse or indemnify; pay back. 4) Law . To withhold (a portion of something due), having some rightful claim to do so.

Sentence: The gentleman kept on gambling with the last of his monies in a last minute effort to recoup all the other thousands of dollars he already lost in the casino.