1. a sum of money advanced to someone for expenses or as a loan to be accounted for later
Usage: business; accounting

Examples

• The company gave her an imprest of $500 for travel expenses.
• The office manager maintains an imprest fund for small purchases.
• He must provide receipts to account for the imprest he received.
• The imprest system helps track petty cash expenditures.
• She requested an imprest to cover conference costs.
• The accounting department reconciles all imprest funds monthly.