repay
verbeverbecourant dans les dialogues
- //ɹiˈpeɪ//
Synonym of pay back in all senses.
verbe
- 1
Synonym of pay back in all senses.
I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
I'll repay this wrong asap.
But drops of Grief can ne’re repay / The debt of Love I owe, […]
On the results of the Kent Coast electrification, which is known to be repaying so far a satisfactory return on the investment in it, a Waterloo-Bournemouth scheme shows reasonable financial promise.
- 2
To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.
The possible importance of excessive androgen secretion and the ingestion of agents such as the fluorenamines may repay further investigation.
- 3
To give in return; requite.
Étymologie
From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).
verbe
- 1
To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.
Formes
- passé
- repaid, repayed
- participe passé
- repaid, repayed
- participe présent
- repaying
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- repays
repay · Synonym of pay back in all senses.
repeat · To do or say again (and again).repeated · Having been said or done again.repeatedly · Done several times or in repetition.