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US
/ɹiˈpeɪ/
]
[ UK /ɹɪpˈeɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪpˈeɪ/ ]
VERB
-
pay back
Please refund me my money - make repayment for or return something
- answer back
- act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions
How To Use repay In A Sentence
- Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
- What are you able to provide as a surety that you will repay the loan?
- Mortgage brokers report that borrowers increasingly want the security of knowing how much their mortgage repayments will cost for the next decade. Times, Sunday Times
- I took out a personal loan and, after a payment holiday, repayments started in February.
- As you know, Bubba, I have no way to ever repay you for your unselfish gift of life you so eagerly gave to me. All I can offer to you is my undying love, my respect, my gratitude and my humble heart.
- That might mean a claim for sale or purchase of stocks, merchandise, or real estate, or the receipt or repayment of a loan.
- This a 200 per cent rise from the number of borrowers presently behind with their repayments. Times, Sunday Times
- That could mean executives may have to partially repay bonuses or share awards doled out last year. Times, Sunday Times
- In the US, many people do this by making 26 fortnightly payments of half their mortgage repayment, instead of twelve monthly payments.
- People who default on their mortgage repayments may have their home repossessed.