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Webster 1913 Edition


Imprest

Im-prest′

(ĭm-prĕst′)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Imprested
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Impresting
.]
[Pref.
im-
+
prest
: cf. It.
imprestare
. See
Prest
,
Noun.
]
To advance on loan.
Burke.

Im′prest

(ĭm′prĕst)
,
Noun.
[Cf. It.
impresto
,
imprestito
, LL.
impraestitum
. See
Imprest
,
Verb.
T.
, and
Impress
compulsion to serve.]
A kind of earnest money; loan; – specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Imprest

IM'PREST

,
Noun.
A kind of earnest-money; loan; money advanced.

Definition 2024


imprest

imprest

English

Noun

imprest (plural imprests)

  1. An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee. [from 16th c.]
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 240:
      Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.

Verb

imprest (third-person singular simple present imprests, present participle impresting, simple past and past participle imprested)

  1. To advance on loan.
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