repay
verb (used with object)
to pay back or refund, as money.
is repaying
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present progressiveof repay (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The U.S. government is repaying $920 million to TotalEnergies to give up offshore-wind leases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
After the Kings helped him unlock his potential, Darcy Kuemper is repaying Rob Blake and the franchise by posting some of the strongest numbers of his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025
And Zaltzman feels he is repaying a debt to Smith, dating back to a fixture involving his county Surrey a number of years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2024
Money will go to a court-appointed receiver who is repaying victims of Stanford's $7.2 billion fraud, which was uncovered in Feb. 2009, two months after the arrest of Bernard Madoff.
From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2023
"Yes, quite; indeed I may say, better, for the garden is repaying the money we laid out upon it last year, and we have obtained such a nice school for Freddy."
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
