prepaying

present participle of prepay

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prepaying
Verb
  • Despite paying off blackmailers and marrying Lady Olivia Hedges (Danielle Galligan) to protect his secret, Arthur still loses his father’s Parliament seat after getting caught committing election fraud.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • This approach is already paying off in some high-impact areas.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Maybe Aer Lingus got confused when refunding your ticket.
    Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
  • This would of course involve refunding everyone who bought it, and changing it from ornaments to an actual armor set (that would no doubt take six months of work in the current engine).
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Agencies are playing their part, like the National Healthcare Security Administration, which laid out ways for reimbursing brain implant surgeries through its state insurance fund.
    Gina Chon, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The complaint alleges that Starbucks violated the law by not reimbursing employees who needed to buy new clothes to comply with the dress code.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The president had previously been adamant about Harvard paying up, as a few other schools have done, to end federal actions against it.
    Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Still, many are not convinced that is a good reason for Medicaid to continue paying up to a five-fold premium for public ambulance service providers relative to private competitors.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The school will have the option of repaying $18 million of the bonds in 2030 with fundraising receipts.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The illusion of Jake’s seemingly idyllic life is shattered by the return of his chaotic older brother Vince (Jason Bateman), who had fled the state years earlier to avoid repaying a hefty debt to menacing mobster Joe Mancuso (Troy Kotsur).
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Prepaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prepaying. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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