What is "paying back"

Usage examples of "paying back".

With Dover's ugly security soon to be put in force, with the proceeds of his practice immediately absorbed in paying back debts, and with the chance, if the worst were known, of daily supplies being refused on credit, above all with the vision of Rosamond's hopeless discontent continually haunting him, Lydgate had begun to see that he should inevitably bend himself to ask help from somebody or other.

The last thing I remember before falling asleep was Abbott telling Costello that paying back rent was like betting on a dead horse.

The old man had been proud of paying back every cent before it was due.

Marco and I, we put a lot into paying back the debt we owed to Caesare.

That meant that after paying back the loan from Sheikh Abd el Kadir I'd have thirty-five thousands pounds clear profit from the sale of the business.

He drew up a paper paying back to Buonarroto's wife the dowry she had brought with her.

Though they took out many loans they'd no intention of paying back, they were always short of cash and on the lookout for a means of getting more.

He had no one to ring now, no one who gave a stuff if he won or lost, except his creditors, whom he was gradually paying back.

Back in Rome, he began a curious campaign of murder against people who had been with him in France, paying back the slights and insults he had been forced to swallow in the French court.