Definition of Imprest

1. v. t. To advance on loan.

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

Definition of Imprest

1. Noun. an advance of funds, especially from a government or civil service ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imprest

1. a loan or advance of money [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprest

impressionless
impressions
impressions for cerebral gyri
impressions of oesophagus
impressive
impressive aphasia
impressively
impressiveness
impressment
impressments
impressor
impressors
impresst
impressure
impressures
imprest (current term)
imprests
impreventable
imprimantur
imprimatur
imprimaturs
imprimery
impriming
imprimings
imprimis
imprint
imprinted
imprinter
imprinters

Literary usage of Imprest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Applied Theory of Accounts by Paul Joseph Esquerré (1914)
"Theory of the imprest Fund It will be noticed that at the time the fund was created ... This explains why the word "imprest" is used in qualifying the above ..."

2. A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland, Or, a by Robert Beatson (1806)
"Secretary to the imprest, [ Allan Maclean, esq. Auditors to the imprest Office *. ... The same Board of Commissioners until 1786 as the imprest Office. ..."

3. Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Thomas Franklin Waters, Sarah Goodhue, John Wise (1917)
"these whos names are a boue written ware imprest into ltis ... 1744 imprest Into his maiesties sarvis thomas poland June ye ..."

4. Public Accounting and Auditing by John F. Sherwood (1920)
"imprest System. Since it is important that all receipts be deposited in the bank and all payments be made by check, there has come into use what is known as ..."

5. Great Epochs in American History: Described by Famous Writers from Columbus by Francis Whiting Halsey (1912)
"... HOW AMERICAN SUCCESS IN THE WAR imprest EUROPE BY HENRY ADAMS1 The American declaration of war against England, July 18, 1812, annoyed those European ..."

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