imprest

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪmˈpɹɛst/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee.
    — Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of impress form-of,obsolete,participle,past
  2. To advance funds on loan.
    — February 23 1780, Edmund Burke, Establism Bill it shall not be lawful to imprest or issue to the paymaster general of his majesty's land forces

词形变化

imprests plural imprests present,singular,third-person impresting participle,present imprested participle,past imprested past

词源

Prefix form of prest, perhaps after Italian imprestare, or perhaps from a misunderstanding of the phrase in prest.
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