prepaying

present participle of prepay

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prepaying
Verb
  • If a company has a lot of floating-rate assets (their portfolio lending) but also a healthy amount of floating-rate debt, a lower portfolio yield might be offset by a lower cost of paying off that debt.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • His bat said that the work is perhaps paying off.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Trump has said that refunding the money would lead to a depression.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Highmark ended up reimbursing them more than $70,000.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The company began reimbursing for AI tools and prompt engineering classes, and even brought in outside experts to evangelize.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Aug. 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
  • He's spent 20 years repaying this debt kindness.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Their matchmaker, Aklilu, was repaying a kindness by Ceccarelli from many years ago.
    Susan Young, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Prepaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prepaying. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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