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 Guitars take the place of shovels, as Henry now repays Carlos’ kindness by helping to save the land that Carlos assumes is ravaged. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026 Only time will tell whether Iraola repays the faith shown in him after Slot was shown the door. — James Pearce, New York Times, 11 July 2026 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 The bond also has a maturity date, which is when the issuer repays the principal. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 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 city repays the bondholders over time, plus interest, using property taxes. — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025 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
  • Maine’s Live + Work program supports new residents with job opportunities, industry insights, and relocation guides, while the Opportunity Maine Tax Credit reimburses student loan payments for college graduates.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
  • If the business reimburses the capital within a specified window, Magellan charges zero interest.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
Definition of reimburses
Verb
  • Enterprise Mobility told the Tribune it either gives the city the necessary information to ticket the renter or driver directly, or pays the violation and then recovers the cost from the renter.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
  • Factory International also pays tribute to the city’s cultural history, taking its name from Factory Records.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Definition of pays
Verb
  • Okert reciprocates by turning to Imai’s trainer, Kentaro Sasaki, and offering the same emphatic greeting.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • 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
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
  • What might come as a surprise, though, is the iPhone 17 family already actually satisfies EU rules.
    — Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • When the two storylines collide, Nolan stages a clash of A-list titans that throws the director’s usual cerebral machinations aside and instead satisfies his audience with some good old-fashion bloodlust.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 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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