repay
to pay back or refund, as money.
to make return for: She repaid the compliment with a smile.
to make return to in any way: We can never repay you for your help.
to return: to repay a visit.
to make repayment or return.
Origin of repay
1Other words for repay
Other words from repay
- re·pay·a·ble, adjective
- re·pay·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- re·pay·ment, noun
- non·re·pay·a·ble, adjective
- non·re·pay·ing, adjective
- un·re·paid, adjective
- un·re·pay·a·ble, adjective
- well-re·paid, adjective
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How to use repay in a sentence
The patrons repaid the mob by buying cheap liquor at premium prices, along with bootleg cigarettes and sometimes drugs.
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How the Kings of Fracking Double-Crossed Their Way to Riches | ProPublica | March 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis spring Tesla repaid its loan from the Department of Energy several years early and raised $1 billion in private capital.
Tesla’s Rise Forces Other Automakers to Up Their Electric Car Game | Daniel Gross | September 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe credit system functions only if people can sleep at night secure in the knowledge that their loans will be repaid.
Carl is repaid for his worldliness with failure and ignominy.
American Dreams: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather | Nathaniel Rich | February 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
At this exhibition I found a splendid display of crocidolite, the sight of which well repaid the visit.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesFor anything of his own which he had spent on the clearing he was to be repaid, and all the money Eudora had put by was to be his.
The Cromptons | Mary J. HolmesThe proclamation embodying this Act permitted the temporary use of municipal lands, the seed supplied to be repaid after the crop.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanAs she heard those words, and saw his pleased looks, Nelly felt she was well repaid for all her trouble.
Their kindness and the inspiration of their example must be reckoned among those things that cannot be repaid.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
British Dictionary definitions for repay
/ (rɪˈpeɪ) /
to pay back (money) to (a person); refund or reimburse
to make a return for (something) by way of compensation: to repay kindness
Derived forms of repay
- repayable, adjective
- repayment, noun
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