| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Imprest.[Websters]
2. To be advanced.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb imprest.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (imprest) | 1. To advance on loan.[Websters]. 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: impresting, imprested, imprests, imprester, impresters, imprestingly and imprestedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "IMPRESTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: imprest
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A kind of earnest-money; loan; money advanced.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] an advance of funds, especially from a government or civil service. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: imprest
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Imprest system | A system using loan(s) as control against fraud and theft. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: imprest
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Imprest fund | Business | A cash fund of a fixed amount established by an advance of funds, without charge to an appropriation, from an agency finance or disbursing officer to a duly appointed cashier, for disbursement as needed from time to time in making payment in cash for relatively small amounts. (references) | |
| Imprest fund | Finance | (1) available money of a designated amount maintained in order to pay for small, routine operating expenses of a business or other organization. Also called a petty cash fund. (2) a loan of government funds. (references) | |
| Imprest fund | Housing | A fixed-cash or petty-cash fund in the form of currency, coin, or Government check, which has been advanced as Funds Held outside of Treasury and charged to a specific Appropriation account by a Government agency official to an authorized cashier for cash payment or other cash requirement as specifically authorized. The fund may be a revolving type, replenished to the fixed amount as spent or used, or may be of a stationary nature such as a change-making fund. (JFMIP Core; TFM 4-3020) HUDCAPS Core Financial System Standard Accounting Interface, dated 9/30/97. (references) | |
| Imprest fund | Military | (DOD) A cash fund of a fixed amount established through an advance of funds, without appropriation change, to an authorized imprest fund cashier to effect immediate cash payments of relatively small amounts for authorized purchases of supplies and nonpersonal services. (references) | |
| Imprest Fund/Cashier | Aerospace | A cashier who controls a fixed amount of cash used to make minor expenditures for supplies or services. (references) | |
| Imprest funds | Military | (DOD) Funds issued by Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) to a military organization to purchase beginning inventory for the operation of an AAFES imprest fund activity. See also Army and Air Force Exchange Service imprest fund activity. (references) | |
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| Imprest system | 5 | Imprest system | 5 | |
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