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UK
/ɹɪpˈeɪmənt/
]
[ US /ɹiˈpeɪmənt/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈpeɪmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the act of returning money received previously
- payment of a debt or obligation
How To Use repayment In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- It soon emerged that neither the July nor August mortgage repayment had been collected.
- And yet what does the ghost on the battlement want but a repayment of what he believes he is owed? INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
- Those early repayments, or prepayments, cut short the lives of mortgage securities and can reduce their returns.
- Harvey Sacks has suggested to me that, in the case of directions, a small repayment is automatically involved, namely, the imputation, which could be positive, that the asked person looks like“a native of these parts.” Behavior in Public Places