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IMPREST

\ɪmpɹˈɛst], \ɪmpɹˈɛst], \ɪ_m_p_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_t]\

Definitions of IMPREST

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language

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A kind of earnest money; loan; - specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A kind of earnest money; loan; - specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A kind of earnest-money; loan; money advanced. Imprest office, one of the admiralty departments, so called from attending to the business of advances to paymasters.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

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