How to Use repo in a Sentence

repo

1 of 2 adjective
  • But the repo man can come for a car if a payment is even a day late.
    — Liz Weston, The Seattle Times, 2017-06-12
  • At one point a group of repo men used a helicopter to take back a ski lift.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 2017-02-07
  • After the family left, repo men showed up for their two cars, and their house was foreclosed.
    — Times Staff, latimes.com, 2018-01-25
  • The central bank had already stepped up its repo purchase offers.
    — Jeff Spross, TheWeek, 2020-03-12
  • Without the Fed, the repo market just wouldn't function anymore.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 2019-10-25
  • Police say Mathurin fired several shots but missed hitting the repo man.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 2018-03-09
  • When investors questioned the value of those securities, the repo market froze up.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 2018-05-11
  • Max Hardberger, a raffish oceanic repo man, stars in Urbina’s heist story.
    — Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 2019-09-12
  • These financial gymnastics matter because big banks have an outsize effect on repo markets.
    — The Economist, 2019-12-18
  • Rates on short-term repo agreements had briefly spiked to nearly 10% earlier this week as financial firms scrambled to find short-term funding.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2019-09-20
  • The funds rate, which is the amount that banks charge each other for overnight loans, is the main way the central bank manages short-term interest rates and it can be influenced by moves in the repo rate.
    — CBS News, 2019-09-20
  • Risks from the process could include wider credit spreads and increased borrowing costs in the repo market for benchmark two-, five-, and 10-year debt modestly.
    — Liz McCormick, Bloomberg.com, 2017-08-02
  • Responding officers helped adjust the situation and the repo driver continued with the vehicle while the others involved left the area.
    — cleveland, 2019-11-01
  • John Heinkel, a professional repo man with a full head of graying hair and a small and scrappy build, hoists a Lime scooter on its back wheel, setting off the alarm underneath the scooter’s brake.
    — Amy Martyn, The Verge, 2019-07-24
  • The prior actions have helped calm the funding market, with repo rates declining to more normal levels after soaring to 10 percent Tuesday, four times last week’s levels.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2019-09-20
  • Still, Chinese central bank officials, who did their best on Monday to cushion the blow by cutting the repo rate and injecting billions of yuan in stimulus, were not happy with investors.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2020-02-03
  • The prior operations have calmed markets, with repo rates declining Wednesday to more normal levels after jumping to 10% on Tuesday, four times last week’s levels.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2019-09-18
  • Looking to head off panic, China's central bank injected $173.8 billion of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operations on Monday.
    — NBC News, 2020-02-03

repo

2 of 2 noun
  • The repo job came with a gas card.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The open source repo is live here.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • That’s when a repo agent is most likely to be mistaken for a thief in the night.
    — Austin Elias-De Jesus, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The repo business has been quite active lately.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The repo rate is the one at which the central bank lends money to the country’s commercial banks.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 May 2022
  • Our Rosa spends a little time in an uncharred cab barrel and our repo is just rested a bit longer.
    — Tim Chan, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The overnight Treasury repo rate had surged as high as 10% on Tuesday.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The Fed was forced to step in by conducting its first repo operations in more than a decade.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The Fed’s tweak to its overnight reverse repo rate helped relieve some pressure on banks’ bulging balance sheets.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 11 July 2021
  • The bank kept its key one-week repo rate at 19%, a move that is unlikely to woo foreign investors back.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The repo basically took links that were already available and gathered them in one place.
    — Chris Person, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Apart from the cost of deposits and repo rate, banks charge a risk premium, which is based on the profile of a borrower.
    — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 9 July 2020
  • The repo driver and the police officers were not injured.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The reverse repo rate and interest on excess reserves rate exist to help keep the funds rate within that range.
    — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • When Pitman started in repo, orders arrived by fax; agents used foldout maps.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The repo market, which is also part of the short-term lending market, blew up months before the pandemic.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Eddie Whiteman knows nobody is rooting for the repo man, but his business is hurting.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Most banks in India haven’t fully passed on the benefits of lower repo rates to borrowers.
    — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 9 July 2020
  • For a stable, repo-local script, that critique holds, and wrapping every small command in a gateway adds surface area no one needs.
    — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • One is that the three-month yield has stayed fairly flat, likely due in large part to the Fed's intervention in the repo markets since last fall.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Also, does taking down one GitHub repo really address the issue at hand?
    — Chris Person, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The rate to borrow 10-year Treasuries in the repo market plunged to minus-4% this week, a very rare occurrence.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Analysts also pointed to the increasing use of the Treasury repo market by hedge funds.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • In some cases, a repo driver has taken a vehicle without realizing that a child was inside.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Not a repo driver, the caller was concerned that the trucker might get hostile, but the semi was turned back over to the owner without incident around noon.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Sweden moved its negative repo rate to zero at the end of 2019, and didn’t reduce it again as the pandemic spread.
    — Mike Bird, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Officials cut Turkey’s key policy rate, its one-week repo rate, to 18% from 19%.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The moves were aimed at giving banks more lending firepower during the recession and ease strains emerging in the Treasury and repo markets.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 19 Mar. 2021
  • December 16th saw a repeat of the factors that had driven the repo rate higher in September.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The change has nothing to do with the Pixel 6, but a different Googler responded with a link to an internal source code repo.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 May 2021

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