repay

[re·pay]

When you give someone money that you owe them, you repay them. A bank may loan you money to buy a new car, but you'll have to repay the money, plus interest.

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

Verb
answer back

Verb
pay back; "Please refund me my money"

Verb
make repayment for or return something

Verb
act or give recompensation in recognition of someone''s behavior or actions

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

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

v. t.
To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

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.

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.

3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt. Syn. -- To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite.

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

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Usage Examples

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.