repay
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French repaier (“to pay back”) (compare French repayer (“to pay again”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repaid)
- To pay back.
- I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
- 1962 April, “Talking of Trains: Short-sighted approach to profits?”, in Modern Railways, page 219:
- On the results of the Kent Coast electrification, which is known to be repaying so far a satisfactory return on the investment in it, a Waterloo-Bournemouth scheme shows reasonable financial promise.
Translations[edit]
pay back — see pay back