repay

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Pronunciation

/ɹiˈpeɪ/

Definition of repay

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

Synonym of pay back in all senses.

“I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.”
“I'll repay this wrong asap.”
“But drops of Grief can ne’re repay / The debt of Love I owe, […]”
“On the results of the Kent Coast electrification, which is known to be repaying so far a satisfactory return on the investment in it, a Waterloo-Bournemouth scheme shows reasonable financial promise.”
“I was low as low could go / Could not stand anymore / Oh, I could never, never / Never, never repay you”

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verb

Synonym of pay back in all senses.

“I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.”
“I'll repay this wrong asap.”
“But drops of Grief can ne’re repay / The debt of Love I owe, […]”
“On the results of the Kent Coast electrification, which is known to be repaying so far a satisfactory return on the investment in it, a Waterloo-Bournemouth scheme shows reasonable financial promise.”
“I was low as low could go / Could not stand anymore / Oh, I could never, never / Never, never repay you”
(transitive)To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.

“The possible importance of excessive androgen secretion and the ingestion of agents such as the fluorenamines may repay further investigation.”
(transitive)To give in return; requite.
To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).