prepay
verb (used with object)
prepayment
-
a word derived from
prepay.
Example Sentences
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The Consumer Council for Northern Ireland has said the supplier's credit customers and prepayment customers will see their annual electricity costs rise by about £129 a year.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
While federal law doesn’t bar prepayment requests for nonemergency services, some states are enacting laws to address aspects of the trend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
In a LinkedIn post following the earnings announcement, Micron’s chief business officer Sumit Sadana said that the company has already signed 16 strategic customer agreements, or long-term purchase commitments with significant customer prepayment.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Type C communities guarantee access to different levels of care, but entrance fees are lower as they don’t include prepayment for future healthcare.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
In the lack of suicides, stabs in the dark, and pronunciamientos, they are driven to fill up their space with extracts from the almanac and lists of letters thrown into the Post Office without prepayment.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
