Usually means: To make payment for debt.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. repay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. repay: Merriam-Webster
  3. repay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. repay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. repay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. repay: Vocabulary.com
  7. Repay, repay: Wordnik
  8. repay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. repay: Wiktionary
  10. repay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. repay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. repay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Repay, repay: Dictionary.com
  14. repay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. repay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Repay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. repay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. repay: Rhymezone
  19. repay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. repay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. repay: FreeDictionary.org
  22. repay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. repay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. repay: Legal dictionary
  3. repay: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repay: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repay: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repay)

▸ verb:  Synonym of pay back in all senses.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give in return; requite.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.

Similar:
requite, refund, pay back, give back, come back, rejoin, return, reward, retort, riposte, more...

Types:
compensation, reparation, amends, indemnity, more...

Phrases:
to repay, repay a wrong in kind, repay in kind, repay a debt, repay for past grievances, more...


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Similar:
requite, refund, pay back, give back, come back, rejoin, return, reward, retort, riposte, more...

Types:
compensation, reparation, amends, indemnity, more...

Phrases:
to repay, repay a wrong in kind, repay in kind, repay a debt, repay for past grievances, never be able to repay, a person who is unable to repay a debt, repay me, the need to repay, repay for, repay you, more...



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