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
They do not cause cancer, unlike coal-powered plants, and though there are certainly emissions associated with their manufacturing process, the typical wind project repays its carbon footprint in six months or less.
Science was a big winner—and loser—at this week’s presidential debate | Sara Chodosh | October 23, 2020 | Popular-ScienceLocal agencies may repay loans with water and hydropower revenues.
Healthy forests do more than just prevent wildfires | By Bales & Conklin/The Conversation | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWe repaid all of our debt about 18 months ago and are now able to grow the business from the sales that we make.
The irreverent toilet paper startup that cleaned up during the pandemic lockdown | Rachel King | October 18, 2020 | FortuneSlave traders had no trouble pricing a human life, and abolition-era economists repaid slave owners for the losses of their freed slaves.
The state of Ohio on Monday ordered General Motors to repay $28 million in public subsidies for reneging on its promise to keep its sprawling Lordstown plant open.
Ohio Just Ordered GM to Repay $28 Million in Tax Breaks for Closing the Lordstown Auto Plant | by Dan O’Brien, The Business Journal | September 28, 2020 | ProPublica
In March, the company made an arrangement to accelerate the repayment date to 2017 – five years ahead of schedule.
Tesla Motors will repay government loan nine years early | Daniel Gross | May 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2007, the Bush administration pioneered a new approach to student loan debt: income-based repayment.
Saving vs. debt repayment, index funds v. ETFs, and why they don't turn Camp Pendleton over to developers?
Republicans often insist that veterans should stand at the front of the repayment queue.
Who Doesn't Get Paid if We Cross the Debt Ceiling? | David Frum | January 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe program has since been amended to make it more generous, with a lower income cap and longer repayment term.
Why should he have compunction—why think about it, when the hour of repayment was so near at hand?
If the holder has been free from wrong in presenting the check, the bank cannot look to him, but to the drawer for repayment.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesHe proposed to advance the money requisite for these two payments, and to take repayment from the future remittances of China.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanBefore he got into the Czar's favor he owed my father a large sum, and then sought how to evade repayment.
The Czar's Spy | William Le QueuxThe repayment of that advance will yet cost Ireland many a groan.
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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