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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
repay
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pay/repay a mortgage
▪ If I lose my job, we won't be able to pay the mortgage.
repay/pay off/pay back a loan (=give back the money you borrowed, usually over a period of time)
▪ You can repay the loan early without a penalty.
repay/settle a debtformal (= pay the money back)
▪ He was hoping he would soon have enough money to settle his debts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
▪ Do/can we earn an adequate return for the risk involved? and is there a clearly identified ability to repay?
▪ Salomon was exposed to the homeowners' ability to repay.
▪ Savings over £1000 will make a difference to the amount you can get as will your ability to repay the loan.
amount
▪ Yet 23 of the world's poorest countries are set to repay twice that amount in debt this year.
▪ His intention to repay the equivalent amount was relevant to dishonesty, not to the intention permanently to deprive.
bank
▪ On maturity, generally after 91 days, the bills must be repaid in full to the bank.
▪ The receivers proceeded with the receivership and managed to repay the bank in full.
▪ Firms raised more external finance than they needed, using the surplus to repay bank debts and build up excess cash.
▪ August - at least 10 Third World countries have stopped repaying their commercial bank creditors.
▪ Thus, the discount houses may be making losses on the loans they are repaying to the commercial banks.
capital
▪ But only if the couple who have 7 children repay the outstanding capital immediately.
▪ They repay your interest and capital together, in monthly instalments which change from time to time, as our interest rates change.
debt
▪ The B debt would have interest rolled up, and would be repaid once the principal on the A debt was repaid.
▪ The debt is to be repaid through Pima County residents' user fees.
▪ The creditors' approval remained dependent on US$4,100 million of debt being repaid over the following two years.
▪ The number of years over which debt is to be repaid is referred to as the term to maturity of the debt.
interest
▪ In money terms, therefore, it is cheaper to repay loans quickly because interest will be saved.
▪ Silent violence is repaid with interest.
▪ They repay your interest and capital together, in monthly instalments which change from time to time, as our interest rates change.
loan
▪ But in practice some authorities judge that this relationship has meant that loans should be repaid quickly.
▪ In addition to the inherited Banrural loans still to be repaid, new debt was encouraged by the state and private investors.
▪ Crisis loans are repaid by weekly deductions from benefit.
▪ The loans were rarely repaid, nor were they intended to be.
▪ However, when the loan is repaid, the company is entitled to a refund of the corporation tax.
▪ An astonishing 97 percent of their loans are repaid on time.
▪ Government-backed loans would be repaid over 15 years, including an eight-year grace period.
money
▪ Should the monk provide her with this money she will repay him in whatever way he pleases.
▪ They also tend to pay the lender a big fat fee if the borrower makes enough money to repay his loans prematurely.
▪ The business of lending money is like gambling-the creditors calculate the odds of the money being repaid.
▪ But now the county has a stake in seeing the money repaid.
▪ All but £2,000 of the stolen money has been repaid.
▪ The money must be repaid if that mission is to occur.
▪ Patros would have to become Prime Minister, too, so that we could be sure that the money would be repaid.
mortgage
▪ Red letter customers need to witness investment returns greater than 8 per cent to stand any chance of repaying their mortgage.
▪ This is an insurance that repays the mortgage in full should the person paying the mortgage die.
▪ Every pound you repay on your mortgage offers a guaranteed rate of return of 11.5 per cent.
▪ The most tax efficient way of repaying a mortgage is the pension mortgage.
▪ The figure you place in the final column is how much you can afford to spend repaying a mortgage every month.
obligation
▪ A general obligation bond is repaid through property taxes.
sum
▪ In a few cases the loan may be repaid in one lump sum at the end of its term.
▪ He said that he intended to repay the sums by renting out the dwellings or by selling them.
tax
▪ A general obligation bond is repaid through property taxes.
▪ If they sell them at any time before that, they must repay the full tax credit on the shares.
▪ Your money will not be forfeited but you will have to repay any tax relief you have received.
years
▪ Public-sector loans were now to be repaid over 20 years and other loans over 15 years.
▪ But Mr Pulman estimated that could be repaid within two years.
▪ Government-backed loans would be repaid over 15 years, including an eight-year grace period.
▪ The estimated building costs amounted to £6,800 which was to be borrowed and to be repaid within twenty-five years.
▪ Even these unpretentious, non-vintage champagnes benefit from keeping for a time; the great champagnes repay keeping for years and years.
■ VERB
intend
▪ Mr Marshall argued that with a strengthened management team, Railtrack intended to repay passengers' patience.
▪ He said that he intended to repay the sums by renting out the dwellings or by selling them.
▪ I intend to repay that trust by working tirelessly for all Willington East residents.
▪ The accused took money from his employers, intending to repay.
require
▪ Mr Kerr added that none of the companies that had received the irregular payments had been required to repay money.
▪ Voters rejected the measure, which would have required the group to repay the buyout, by 51 percent to 49 percent.
▪ The assistance will be required to be repaid in the event of the bid being successful.
▪ A further US$400 million was required to be repaid every six months thereafter.
use
▪ Net proceeds will be used to repay short and long-term debt, refinance long term debt and for working capital.
▪ That generated plenty of dollars the government could use to repay debts.
▪ Proceeds will be used primarily to repay revolving credit borrowings, to finance new store openings and for working capital.
▪ When the warrants are exercised, the issuer can use the proceeds to repay the bonds.
▪ Firms raised more external finance than they needed, using the surplus to repay bank debts and build up excess cash.
▪ He intended to use the cash to repay the money he had stolen from the company.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I don't know how to thank you/repay you
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Failure to repay a student loan can ruin a person's credit rating.
▪ My parents lent me the money to buy a car, and I repaid them over the next year.
▪ The loan has to be repaid within two years.
▪ There were doubts about the country's ability to repay the debt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For that failure the solicitors offered to repay their conveyancing fee: a staggeringly low £160.
▪ He did not arrange trips and could not repay the money.
▪ Mr Kerr added that none of the companies that had received the irregular payments had been required to repay money.
▪ Net proceeds will be used to repay short and long-term debt, refinance long term debt and for working capital.
▪ She apparently stopped repaying the loan after the bank changed ownership and lost the loan documents, they said.
▪ The money must be repaid if that mission is to occur.
▪ Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repay

Repay \Re*pay"\ (r?-p?"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repaid (-p?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repaying.] [Pref. re- + pay: cf. F. repayer.]

  1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

    If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums.
    --Shak.

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

    Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection.
    --Rambler.

  3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

    Syn: To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
repay

mid-15c., from Old French repaier "pay back, give in return," from re- "back" (see re-) + payer "to pay" (see pay (v.)). Related: Repaid; repaying.

Wiktionary
repay

vb. To pay back.

WordNet
repay

  1. v. pay back; "Please refund me my money" [syn: refund, return, give back]

  2. make repayment for or return something [syn: requite]

  3. act or give recompensation in recognition of someone's behavior or actions [syn: reward, pay back]

  4. answer back [syn: retort, come back, return, riposte, rejoin]

  5. [also: repaid]

Usage examples of "repay".

The description of the black forest with the evil stone, and of the terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated, will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and plethora of Scottish dialect.

One of the latest and warmest of her friends was the brilliant and high-souled Ampere, introduced to her by Ballanche, who had been an intimate friend of his father, and who now loved the son with double fervor, a debt which the grateful young man repaid with interest in a noble tribute to his memory.

The Port Dutch was a midtown hotel for millionaires of all kindsoil sheiks, arbitrageurs, rock legends, British royalsand its suites, two per floor facing Central Park across Fifth Avenue, almost always repaid a drop-in visit during the dinner hour.

He undertook to repay him the amount of the doubled bequest and to extend the bounty to the Balkan regiments too.

Margaret Brye had intervened, repaying The Shadow for saving her that time when Larry had fired.

King of England shall have repaid the fifty thousand byzants which he is indebted to the republic.

I told him that the only arrangement I would accept was the payment of the six thousand francs, and that they might think themselves very lucky that I did not insist on having my interest, and thus repaying myself in part for the sums they had cheated out of me.

She said I could repay her at my convenience, but she died before I was able to discharge the debt.

I was greatly touched when the worthy man slipped into my hands a rouleau, telling me it contained twelve quadruples, which I could repay at my convenience.

Exchange be willing to grant such credit to the lords of Defalk for seed grain and planting necessities if the Regent of Defalk reaffirms her commitment to repay the loan.

Could this at long last be his chance to repay Devall for salvaging his name, his career, and probably his life?

Now, a week from today, in order to repay you for standing dinner, Disa Quennel will invite you by phone to dinner at the Quennel house.

A-100 program leaked, and he would execute enough of his options to repay the money he had sent out of Doub the payment he had made two and a half years ago and the one he would make today.

He had to keep reminding himself that no one was being hurt by all this, that he was personally going to repay the money he had wired out from the Doub account to the numbered account in the Caymans.

There is game so fat that a man can live well, and there is magic which I, Eban the Hunter, would share with my people to repay a little what I, in my youth, brought down upon the heads of my own family.