Repay

Word REPAY
Character 5
Hyphenation re pay
Pronunciations /ɹiˈpeɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Repay"

What do we mean by repay?

To pay back. intransitive verb

To give back, either in return or in compensation. intransitive verb

To make a return or compensation for. intransitive verb

To make or do in return. intransitive verb

To make repayment or requital. intransitive verb

To pay back; refund.

To make return, retribution, or requital for, in a good or bad sense: as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.

To make return or repayment to.

To requite either good or evil; make return.

To pay back; to refund. transitive verb

To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense transitive verb

To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt. transitive verb

To pay back. verb

Make repayment for or return something verb

Act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions verb

Answer back verb

Pay back verb

To pay back.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Repay

The word "repay" in example sentences

Josh the sales tax committed to repay is a dedicated revenue source, but not really collateral. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The labels repay it by encouraging rivals like Amazon to Apple to put pressure on it. complains bitterly to the public and regulators that the big bad labels made it use DRM. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They're going to use some of the government money that they got to repay, which is completely legal under the terms of the loan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then under those circumstances, the "repay" rate is the rate you are charged for a kwh .... and in your case I recall you pay a high rate since you are a high kwh consumer. johanson ❋ Unknown (2009)

While submitting an MOU would have resulted in modest funding, the RTTT requires Districts to agree to comply with all tenets of RTTT including implementing merit pay, subscribing to a narrow and restrictive set of approaches to improving low-performing schools, and the possibility of having to "repay" grant funding if all benchmarks were not "achieved." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Fed lending rate gives you a clue on how Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo managed to "repay" the government while continuing to swim in billions of dollars of unpaid debt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I need to kind of repay that in some way, so I'm going to have to get back on the road. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why on earth should her supporters "repay" Hillary for staying in a campaign longer than she needed to. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nah - Obama should not go after Cheney because Obama is mad, nor because Cheney failed to "repay" him; Obama should go after him because Cheney is a criminal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That means Citi's plan to "repay" the government actually ends up costing taxpayers money. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Wednesday that AIG will "repay" taxpayers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Morici goes on to point out that low interest rates screw over old people who have certificates of deposit, and that the banks now want to "repay" the loans because when you're being given money for nothing, and allowed to keep bad assets on your books at whatever price you feel is ok (since mark to market is gone), well, everything is wonderful in banker land. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This means noticing ... when we give in order to impress others ... when we give, expecting the recipient to "repay" us somehow ❋ Unknown (2009)

One can never 'repay' the debt owed to the victim and to society from those crimes. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Even after the government's ludicrous proposal last month to "repay" taxpayers by having taxpayers guarantee a £30 billion bond issue for the bank -- potentially a £30 billion subsidy -- only Virgin Money and the Rock's board tendered bids. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Parishes used to have a few cottages for those who'd been thrown on the charity of the parish, but more and more those were replaced with workhouses where families were broken up and forced to live in male and female dormitories, and both sexes were put to backbreaking work to "repay" the parish for their hard beds and scanty food. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

World leaders don't often get to visit in each other's homes and I thought that there ought to be something I could to kind of repay his extraordinary hospitality. ❋ ITY National Archives (1996)

In practice, a student earning £18,000 after graduation will only "repay" ❋ Unknown (2010)

Giving reasons for the urgent tackling of the £770billion deficit, Cameron explained that the more the Government borrows, the more lenders will worry over our ability to repay, meaning less confidence in our economy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since then, I've tried to give GM a chance and tried to give them the benefit of the doubt; that maybe they would succeed and that they would "repay" the government and be put into private hands again. ❋ GM-Volt.com (2010)

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