repays

verb

present tense third-person singular of repay
1
as in reimburses
to make a return payment to I repaid my friend the $20 he had lent me

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2
as in pays
to make a return for how can we ever repay your kindness?

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Recent Examples of repays The Creature repays the favor by using his strength to free the ship from its icy prison. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026 The bond also has a maturity date, which is when the issuer repays the principal. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 The city repays the bondholders over time, plus interest, using property taxes. — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025 Once the buildings are complete, the homebuilder repays the loan with interest, and the state can recycle the funds to support more housing projects without additional public investment. — Anthony Tordillos, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images What To Know The program repays up to $20,000 in student loan debt over four years, according to HESAA. — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repays
  1. reimburses
  2. pays
  3. reciprocates
  4. exchanges
  5. satisfies
  6. compensates
Verb
  • If the business reimburses the capital within a specified window, Magellan charges zero interest.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
  • Deep cleaning reimburses for extra cleaning services required to remove stains and smoke odors.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of reimburses
Verb
  • Currently, a person who earns $184,500 per year pays the same amount in annual Social Security taxes as a person who earns $5 million per year.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
  • The Goalkeeper’s Hands The keeper is the only player allowed to use their hands, and pays for it up top.
    — Dr. Tal Patalon, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of pays
Verb
  • Over the course of the season, Chantal grows frustrated with her needy fiancé and begins falling for Jordie, who has harbored feelings for Delilah for years, but seemingly moves on and reciprocates Chantal’s affections.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • The seagrass reciprocates with sugars.
    — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of reciprocates
Verb
  • Thomas regularly exchanges texts and Instagram messages with Alex’s mother, Leah, in Perth, while enjoying the company of his father, Damien, a former Australian rules football player, when the Condons travel stateside.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026
  • To address the challenge, the team designed a swap gate based purely on geometric phases, that exchanges the quantum state of two qubits.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
Definition of exchanges
Verb
  • Other cities are fighting lawsuits from developers who say their Live Local projects were rejected in violation of the law’s provisions, which require local authorities to grant approval if a proposal satisfies certain conditions.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • That agreement should spell out the settlement amount, the payment deadline and provide explicit confirmation that the payment satisfies the debt in full.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Definition of satisfies
Verb
  • The more useful question is what the current price assumes, what could change those assumptions, and whether the likely return compensates investors for the risks.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • However, research findings are mixed, and not everyone compensates by eating more.
    — Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 26 June 2026
Definition of compensates

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