Repay
verb
To give back money to someone who lent you.
She is still repaying her student loans.
Often appears as...
- repay a loan
- repay a debt
verb
To do something helpful for someone who has helped you.
He repaid her kindness by helping her with her studies.
Often appears as...
- repay a kindness
- repay a favor
verb
To give something to someone in exchange for something they have done for you.
The company repaid the employee's hard work with a promotion.
Often appears as...
- repay efforts
- repay loyalty
Usage tips
Business
verb
To give back money to someone who lent you.
She is still repaying her student loans.
Often appears as...
- repay a loan
- repay a debt
verb
To do something helpful for someone who has helped you.
He repaid her kindness by helping her with her studies.
Often appears as...
- repay a kindness
- repay a favor
verb
To give something to someone in exchange for something they have done for you.
The company repaid the employee's hard work with a promotion.
Often appears as...
- repay efforts
- repay loyalty
Usage tips
Business
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Paying Off
Often used to describe gradually reducing debt over time.
I aim to repay my car loan by the end of next year.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Obligation
'Repay' suggests a strong sense of duty or obligation in financial contexts.
We must repay the bank loan within five years.
Pro Tip 3/3Monetary Context
Used when discussing money, specifically when returning an amount borrowed.
After I repay this debt, I'll be free from loans.
Pro Tip 1/3Paying Off
Often used to describe gradually reducing debt over time.
I aim to repay my car loan by the end of next year.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Obligation
'Repay' suggests a strong sense of duty or obligation in financial contexts.
We must repay the bank loan within five years.
Pro Tip 3/3Monetary Context
Used when discussing money, specifically when returning an amount borrowed.
After I repay this debt, I'll be free from loans.
Pro Tip 1/3Paying Off
Often used to describe gradually reducing debt over time.
I aim to repay my car loan by the end of next year.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Obligation
'Repay' suggests a strong sense of duty or obligation in financial contexts.
We must repay the bank loan within five years.
Pro Tip 3/3Monetary Context
Used when discussing money, specifically when returning an amount borrowed.
After I repay this debt, I'll be free from loans.
Compare with
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What is a gift economy?...
with someone always indebted to someone else. Repaying a gift immediately, or with something of exactly equal value, may be read as ending the social relationship. So, are gift economies exclusive to small-scale societies outside the industrialized world? Not quite. For one thing, even in these cultures,
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Afra Raymond: Three...
unprecedented fit of generosity, the government of the day signed, made a written commitment, to repay all of the creditors. And I can tell you without fear of contradiction that hasn't happened anywhere else on the planet. Let's understand, because we lack context.
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Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...
like a funeral or a medical problem and then they charge outrageous interest rates so the money can never be repaid and the debt is passed on to the children the heat was intense that day it was a hundred and forty degrees and the added heat from the furnaces that
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A healthy economy should...
to deliver growing sales, growing market share and growing profits, and because banks create money as debt bearing interest, which must be repaid with more. We're politically addicted to growth because politicians want to raise tax revenue without raising taxes
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What causes an economic...
that borrowers pay to their creditors until the loan is repaid. Low interest rates mean that companies can afford to borrow more money, which they can use to invest in more projects. High interest rates, meanwhile, increase costs for producers and consumers,
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How the worst moments in...
But the self-loathing of that period left a void, and celebration needs to fill and overflow it, and even if I repay my private debt of melancholy, there's still an outer world of homophobia that it will take decades to address.
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We need women in...
put on this big welcome for us dancers singers everybody from the business community and they arts and this to that and I thought how can I ever repay this hospitality and so I said Madam President when I speak I would like to
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The Japanese myth of the...
to trick potential pranksters into taking their antics elsewhere. However, this tanuki only smiled sweetly. Why had he chosen this unsuspecting form? The tanuki explained that he wanted to repay the salesman’s kindness.
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Weirdest Animal...
doesn't repay the favor once underground the caterpillar leads a predatory life eating the ants own larvae until one day it's ready to change into a pupa and eventually emerges as one of Britain's rarest
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Beautiful Butterfly...
the caterpillar mimics the sound and smell of the ants own young and mistaken for a mislaid ant lava is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once
Video examples
What is a gift economy?...
with someone always indebted to someone else. Repaying a gift immediately, or with something of exactly equal value, may be read as ending the social relationship. So, are gift economies exclusive to small-scale societies outside the industrialized world? Not quite. For one thing, even in these cultures,
Video examples
Afra Raymond: Three...
unprecedented fit of generosity, the government of the day signed, made a written commitment, to repay all of the creditors. And I can tell you without fear of contradiction that hasn't happened anywhere else on the planet. Let's understand, because we lack context.
Video examples
Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...
like a funeral or a medical problem and then they charge outrageous interest rates so the money can never be repaid and the debt is passed on to the children the heat was intense that day it was a hundred and forty degrees and the added heat from the furnaces that
Video examples
A healthy economy should...
to deliver growing sales, growing market share and growing profits, and because banks create money as debt bearing interest, which must be repaid with more. We're politically addicted to growth because politicians want to raise tax revenue without raising taxes
Video examples
What causes an economic...
that borrowers pay to their creditors until the loan is repaid. Low interest rates mean that companies can afford to borrow more money, which they can use to invest in more projects. High interest rates, meanwhile, increase costs for producers and consumers,
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
But the self-loathing of that period left a void, and celebration needs to fill and overflow it, and even if I repay my private debt of melancholy, there's still an outer world of homophobia that it will take decades to address.
Video examples
We need women in...
put on this big welcome for us dancers singers everybody from the business community and they arts and this to that and I thought how can I ever repay this hospitality and so I said Madam President when I speak I would like to
Video examples
The Japanese myth of the...
to trick potential pranksters into taking their antics elsewhere. However, this tanuki only smiled sweetly. Why had he chosen this unsuspecting form? The tanuki explained that he wanted to repay the salesman’s kindness.
Video examples
Weirdest Animal...
doesn't repay the favor once underground the caterpillar leads a predatory life eating the ants own larvae until one day it's ready to change into a pupa and eventually emerges as one of Britain's rarest
Video examples
Beautiful Butterfly...
the caterpillar mimics the sound and smell of the ants own young and mistaken for a mislaid ant lava is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jacob K. Javits
American Politician
You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.
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Ernie Harwell
American Celebrity
I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
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Susan Collins
American Politician
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
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Laura Jane Grace
American Musician
I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.
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George W. Bush
American President
People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
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Richard Thaler
American Economist
High school seniors should receive help in how to think about a student loan and how to make sure that the education bought with the loan offers good prospects for repayment.
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Radamel Falcao
Colombian Athlete
I think the best way I can repay the supporters for their kindness towards me, and for all that love, support and appreciation, is to score goals and win trophies for them.
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Arthur Ashe
American Tennis Player
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Jeon Yeo-been
South Korean Actress
Vincenzo is a delightfully-refreshing dark hero who repays evil for evil.
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Quote examples
Jacob K. Javits
American Politician
You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.
Quote examples
Ernie Harwell
American Celebrity
I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Quote examples
Susan Collins
American Politician
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
Quote examples
Laura Jane Grace
American Musician
I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.
Quote examples
George W. Bush
American President
People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
Quote examples
Richard Thaler
American Economist
High school seniors should receive help in how to think about a student loan and how to make sure that the education bought with the loan offers good prospects for repayment.
Quote examples
Radamel Falcao
Colombian Athlete
I think the best way I can repay the supporters for their kindness towards me, and for all that love, support and appreciation, is to score goals and win trophies for them.
Quote examples
Arthur Ashe
American Tennis Player
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Quote examples
Jeon Yeo-been
South Korean Actress
Vincenzo is a delightfully-refreshing dark hero who repays evil for evil.
Quote examples
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
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