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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

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