recoup

So, I’m trying to recoup some of the investment I’ve made.

They recoup their losses by raising prices and re-extracting it from the people it has been given to, except now the government gets a cut of it twice.

OnLive would also need to recoup the significant costs of an uplink capable of serving all its customers full-HD streams.

You should be locked into the first rate that you request a driver at. If the driver cancels, and the area now has a higher surge rate, Uber should recoup the difference in cost from the drivers next trip because they fucked a customer over.

If A invests 10 million in a technology, and B just copies it, B can undercut A on the market because it doesn't have to recoup R&D costs in the price.

It is going to be economically infeasible to have both extremely high standards for new drugs, then refuse to protect them for long enough to recoup their costs.

The decisive turn in the situation took place in Holland around the 16th century, when Dutch cities discovered they could build canals and recoup costs by charging moderate usage fees.

Assuming a Nest-like device to do that for me would cost the same ~$250 that a Nest does, it would take 20 years to recoup the cost of the device, even assuming it was so perfect that it saved all standby losses.

Since launching things into orbit is very expensive, and the things being launched are very expensive, the company that owns the satellite will try pretty much anything within reason to recoup their costs.