Rimborsato

Rimborsato is the past participle of the Italian verb rimborsare, meaning to reimburse or refund. When used as an adjective, it agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (rimborsata, rimborsati, rimborsate). It also appears in compound tenses, for example with essere in passive or quasi-passive constructions: “La spesa è stata rimborsata.”

In everyday and professional language, rimborsato describes money that has been issued back to someone for a cost they incurred. Common contexts include travel expenses, medical costs, or other work-related expenditures. Typical phrases include “spesa rimborsata,” “rimborso delle spese,” and “l’importo rimborsato dall’azienda.” The verb forms a close semantic field with rimborso (the noun for reimbursement).

The term also appears in insurance and consumer contexts, where a policy or service has been compensated or refunded, for example “il premio è stato rimborsato” or “la polizza è stata rimborsata.” In accounting and taxation, reimbursements for legitimate, documented expenses are generally distinguished from salary and are often treated separately from taxable income, reflecting their nature as reimbursements rather than earnings.

Differences from related terms: rimborso is the noun referring to the reimbursement itself (the payment or amount), while rimborsato is the past participle used as an attributive or predicative form to indicate that reimbursement has occurred. Both forms are common in financial, corporate, and everyday Italian.