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repay English

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What does repay mean?
Definitions in simple English

repay Verb

— If you repay a person, you pay them back the money they paid you in the past.

repay

— verb (= refund) pay back Please refund me my money — verb (= requite) make repayment for or return something — verb (= reward) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions — verb (= retort) answer back

Synonyms repay synonyms

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repay English » English

pay back reimburse return reward compensate requite recompense refund pay disburse settle remunerate pay a debt reciprocate retaliate render give back revenge reply recoup indemnify redeem pay off make reparations make amends come back answer upbraid tell off take revenge scold riposte retort respond reprove reproach reprimand rejoin recover reclaim rebuke pay for liquidate knock exhort criticize censure blame admonish yield

Topics repay topics

What do people use repay to talk about?
Social behavior Law Punish

Atone, restitution
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Revenge
Work and occupation Finance Borrow

Repay debt

Conjugation repay conjugation

How do you conjugate repay?

repay · verb

Examples repay examples

How do I use repay in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I must repay the debt.
I must repay my debts.
You must repay your debts.
I need to repay her.
Is this how you repay me?
This is how you repay me for my kindness?
I will find a way to repay you.
How can I ever repay you?
I only wish there was some way I could repay you.
That's a debt I want to repay.
I would like to repay him for his kindness.
How will he repay his debts?
Is there some way I can repay you for this?

Movie subtitles

We will work hard to repay you.
I'm endeavouring to repay them.
Repay your debts!
The pity of it is, there's nothing I can ever do to repay you.
But somehow or another I'll manage to repay this dollar.
How can I ever repay you for all you're doing for me?
It's almost impossible to repay that debt.
The other is, how can I ever repay him?
And believe me, if ever the opportunity arises I'll repay you for every foot of this tunnel, with interest.
I'd just like to repay you.
I'm going to repay you.
I should always try to repay your kindness.
We'll never be able to repay you, so welcome to our home.
I'm sure every ship owner in the world. would like to repay you for your efforts.
How can I ever repay you?
Afraid I won't repay you?
And remember, I will repay you, not she.
We owe you and Tarzan more than we can repay.
Of course I do, and a great deal more than I can repay with money.
I've enriched your feeble life beyond your capacity to repay me.
How can we ever repay you?
A child should wish to repay a mother's kindness.
I mean, he did protect me and give me food, such as it was, and clothes, such as they were, for a few years and. And now if I can repay.
I can never repay you for what you've done for me.
Is this how you intend to repay his kindness?
This is my chance to repay your kindness.
But how else am I supposed to repay his kindness?
You can work to repay him.
I really should repay you at a time like this.
I was just asking your sister whether your father plans to ever repay the money he owes.
If you dip into the firm's money, at Ieast be able to repay it.
It's a strange way to repay friendship, Mr Holgrave.
So you want this jury to believe that you went back to Nick's just to repay a debt of thirty cents.
And now perhaps I'll be able to repay you.
I, uh, suppose you have some way in mind that I can repay you.

News and current affairs

IMF credits will go to repay the IMF, not to reactivate the economy.
At the most simplistic level: in a world with perfect information, bankruptcy would not exist - why, indeed, would anyone lend to someone who they knew would not repay them?
Without growth, it would become increasingly difficult for Argentina to repay their huge loans.
Indian fathers still sometimes repay debts by committing their children to bonded labor.
The incomes needed to repay loans have evaporated, and assets posted as collateral have lost value.
Financial institutions that have come to doubt their borrowers' ability to repay sell the debt to third parties at knock-down prices, often for as little as five cents on the dollar.
To be in debt can produce anxiety if one is uncertain whether, when the time comes, one will be able to repay what one owes.
How, people ask, will governments repay all of the hundreds of billions of dollars that they owe?
The next step readily follows: in order to repay, or at least reduce, the national debt, the government must eliminate its budget deficit, because the excess of spending over revenue continually adds to the national debt.
But their governments do not have to repay their debts, either.
Tax evaders were offered deals to repay overdue taxes.
But annual deficits are poor approximations of the likelihood that one member may have to repay another's debt.
The time has come for us to repay that debt by helping those in Cuba, whose dreams have already been deferred for too long.
It should repay the favor.
Micro-credits, for example, are much more efficient when women receive and repay them.
This strategy's success presupposes that, in the interim, economic growth will strengthen the capacity to repay debt down the line.
Perhaps worse, some also spent more than they could easily repay, given their economies' declining long-term growth potential because of the aging of their populations.
In some countries, overt corruption occurs primarily through campaign contributions that oblige politicians to repay major donors with favors.
This is not true of countries in the eurozone. But their governments do not have to repay their debts, either.
This creates an incentive to take on more debt, because the real value of the loan is likely to be lower when the time comes to repay it.
Unfortunately, this only increases the risk, boosting the possibility of a sudden reversal as money pours back into the borrowed currency in an attempt to repay loans before the exchange rate soars to loss-generating levels.
Argentina's other threat, not to repay the IMF, challenged the old system just as profoundly and seemed for some to be a justified response to years of bad policy advice from the IMF and the G-7 countries.
This is a risky assumption, because it implies that no European government will ever fail to repay the bond in full, with all interest due, and on time.
Ireland knows better than most countries the difficulties that can arise from having to borrow to fund services or repay maturing debts.
The Ukrainian Government is broke, and will most likely have to default, or to reschedule its foreign debts, or to borrow new funds to repay the old, in 2000.
Even with substantial reform to improve its growth potential, Greece will never be able to repay its sovereign debt and needs substantial relief.
In the meantime, Greece must implement the structural reforms needed to restore the country's long-term growth prospects and thus to strengthen its capacity to repay its creditors without a large nominal debt reduction.

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