[ US /ɹiˈpeɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪpˈe‍ɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. pay back
    Please refund me my money
  2. make repayment for or return something
  3. answer back
  4. act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions
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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.
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