PREPAYING Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

prepaying

verb

present participle of prepay

as in paying off

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stiffing

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Verb

Administrators at the school say a shift in focus to technical training and career readiness is paying off, with more students not only staying in school but graduating on time.

— Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026
Tuchel’s focus on his positioning, constantly tweaking his in-game setup to bring the best out of Bellingham, is paying off.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of paying off

Verb

The former Chick-fil-A employee in Grapevine, Texas, has been arrested for allegedly ringing up hundreds of orders of Mac & Cheese and refunding the money to his own accounts, according to a news release shared with PEOPLE by the Grapevine Police Department.

— Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
Jones was seen in the video using the register to ring up 800 orders of mac and cheese trays, then refunding them to his personal credit cards.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of refunding

Verb

For payers, prevention cannot stop at reimbursing screenings.

— Felicity Yost, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Los Angeles officials have reached a tentative agreement with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games laying out the process for reimbursing the city for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in public services.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026

Definition of reimbursing

Verb

The provision says the members of the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization who voted in May to rescind support for the toll lane project have 90 days to reverse their position to avoid paying up.

— Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 9 July 2026
The Redevelopment Commission on Thursday authorized paying up to $35,000 to buy a partial parcel to extend the road being created in front of Portage Mall south beyond the Stone Quarry and possibly as far south as Central Avenue.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026

Definition of paying up

Verb

Instead, the audit found, the state was remitting fee revenue to the general fund and using more than half the money for purposes unrelated to the board.

— Phoebe Quinton, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
Instead of remitting those taxes to the IRS, prosecutors alleged Kapoor diverted over $2 million from company accounts for his personal benefit.

— Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026

Definition of remitting

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