Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pay back.
- intransitive verb To give back, either in return or in compensation.
- intransitive verb To make a return or compensation for.
- intransitive verb To make or do in return.
- intransitive verb To make repayment or requital.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pay back; refund.
- To make return, retribution, or requital for, in a good or bad sense: as, to
repay kindness; to repay an injury. - To make return or repayment to.
- To requite either good or evil; make return.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To pay back; to refund.
- transitive verb To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense
- transitive verb To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
pay back .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make repayment for or return something
- verb act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions
- verb answer back
- verb pay back
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Examples
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Josh the sales tax committed to repay is a dedicated revenue source, but not really collateral.
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The labels repay it by encouraging rivals like Amazon to Apple to put pressure on it. complains bitterly to the public and regulators that the big bad labels made it use DRM.
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They're going to use some of the government money that they got to repay, which is completely legal under the terms of the loan.
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Then under those circumstances, the "repay" rate is the rate you are charged for a kwh .... and in your case I recall you pay a high rate since you are a high kwh consumer. johanson
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While submitting an MOU would have resulted in modest funding, the RTTT requires Districts to agree to comply with all tenets of RTTT including implementing merit pay, subscribing to a narrow and restrictive set of approaches to improving low-performing schools, and the possibility of having to "repay" grant funding if all benchmarks were not "achieved."
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The Fed lending rate gives you a clue on how Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo managed to "repay" the government while continuing to swim in billions of dollars of unpaid debt.
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Nah - Obama should not go after Cheney because Obama is mad, nor because Cheney failed to "repay" him; Obama should go after him because Cheney is a criminal.
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I need to kind of repay that in some way, so I'm going to have to get back on the road.
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That means Citi's plan to "repay" the government actually ends up costing taxpayers money.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Wednesday that AIG will "repay" taxpayers.
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