Reimburse vs. Indemnify: What's the Difference?

Reimburse and Indemnify Definitions
Reimburse
To repay (money spent); refund.
Indemnify
To protect against damage, loss, or injury; insure.
Reimburse
To pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred.
Indemnify
To make compensation to for damage, loss, or injury suffered.
Reimburse
To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.
The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.
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Indemnify
To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
Reimburse
To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.
Indemnify
To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
Reimburse
To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; - often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation.
Indemnify
To hurt, to harm
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Reimburse
Pay back for some expense incurred;
Can the company reimburse me for my professional travel?
Indemnify
To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
Reimburse
Reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss
Indemnify
To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate.
Indemnify
Secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for;
This plan indemnifies workers against wages lost through illness
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Indemnify
Make amends for; pay compensation for;
One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich
She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident