pay down

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pay down (third-person singular simple present pays down, present participle paying down, simple past and past participle paid down)

  1. (transitive) To partially repay (a loan or, metonymically, the thing financed by it).
    Coordinate term: pay off
    He paid down his loan for the first five months.
    He ought to pay down his car before he even thinks about buying any more collectibles.

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