Usually means: Returns or compensates for something given.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. repays: Merriam-Webster
  2. repays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. repays: Vocabulary.com
  4. Repays, repays: Wordnik
  5. repays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. repays: Wiktionary
  7. repays: Dictionary.com
  8. repays: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. repays: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repays: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repays: Idioms

(Note: See repay as well.)

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.
▸ Also see repay


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