the.com/reimbursement
The company's way of saying yes you really do have to pay first and beg later.
means The act of paying someone back for money they already spent out of their own pocket.
from Built from the prefix re- ('again') plus imburse, from Medieval Latin imbursare — 'to put into a purse' (bursa, 'purse' or 'bag,' is the same root that gives us 'bursar' and 'purse'). So reimbursement literally means to put money back into someone's purse — which, bureaucratically, always takes longer than taking it out did.
- receipt rule
- lose it, lose the money, no exceptions
- float cost
- you give the company an interest free loan
- approval chain
- often takes longer than the trip itself
- fine print
- per diem caps make hotel minibars feel reckless