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单词 repay
释义
repay
(rɪp )
Word forms: repays , repaying , repaid
1. verb B2
If you repay a loan or a debt, you pay back the money that you owe to the person who you borrowed or took it from.
It will take 30 years to repay the loan. [VERB noun]
He advanced funds of his own to his company, which was unable to repay him. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: pay back, refund, settle up, return  
2. verb B2
If you repay a favour that someone did for you, you do something for them in return.
It was very kind. I don't know how I can ever repay you. [VERB noun]
I owe them a debt that cannot easily be repaid. [VERB noun]
Collocations:
repay a cost
He has agreed to repay the cost of clearing his moat at his country estate.
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He refused to repay the cost of the clothing, about $2.
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This would repay the cost of the bailout completely.
Times, Sunday Times
They were often required to repay the cost of their passage to the colony.
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It found that he had not known of the contributions, but concluded that he was still responsible for them and was required to repay their cost.
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repay an amount
If you owe more than 2,000, you must repay the amount in a lump sum.
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But increasing numbers of cardholders are failing to repay the amount they borrow on the card every month.
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However, when you come to sell, you repay the amount borrowed.
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They rarely repay that amount of attention.
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For example, one who embezzles will be required to repay the amount improperly acquired.
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repay an investment
But, if you have a winner, it will repay the investment handsomely.
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They have an obligation to work in the service long enough to repay that investment.
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The financial return, both from tourism and export of choral expertise, will surely repay any investment.
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The turkeys sell for 70 to 80 each so the alpacas only have to save a few birds to repay the investment.
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It trumpets the value of pure research, and succinctly demonstrates how long it sometimes takes for such research to repay the investment that made it possible.
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repay interest
Extending the term, or choosing to repay interest only, will reduce the monthly repayments but you will pay more interest overall.
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It notes that issuance of payment-in-kind notes, the bonds giving borrowers the option to repay interest with more debt, surged to over $9 billion during the first three quarters of 2013.
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Forty per cent of existing mortgages involve the borrower repaying interest only.
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repay investors
When the bond matures, the company must repay investors their original capital.
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He was sentenced to 22 years, later extended to 30 because his then-wife did not turn over assets to repay investors.
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Once the families got the conventional loans, she would repay investors with interest of up to 18 percent.
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That money would be used to repay investors, he said.
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The defendant had proposed that he be allowed to remain out of prison while he attempted to generate funds by more trading in foreign exchange, in order to repay investors.
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repay taxpayers
Now they seem ready to repay taxpayers' generosity by staging a nationwide strike - just as the new term gets under way.
The Sun
This wrecks his hope of giving them enough of a breathing space to repay taxpayers' billions keeping them afloat.
The Sun
They should find them a job, then take every penny to repay taxpayers.
The Sun
repay the capital
Consider transferring what you owe to a new zero per cent interest credit card to give you several months grace to repay the capital.
The Sun
Borrowers do not repay any capital during the course of the loan, so when their mortgage term ends they need to pay back their equity.
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This will affect those paying interest-only loans with no means to repay the capital, meaning that many will have no choice but to sell.
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They plan to repay the capital by downsizing at the end of the mortgage term.
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But if you go interest-only you will have to repay the capital that you borrowed in full at the end of the term.
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repay the principal
Lenders have been forced to alert customers of the potential dangers if they cannot repay the principal on maturity.
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Customers understood that they needed to repay the principal when the mortgage matured and 'have plans, albeit in some circumstances imperfect, on how to repay', he wrote.
Times, Sunday Times
The trustee might sell enough of the shares to repay the principal, interest and other expenses, or distribute an equal value of the shares to the note holders.
Globe and Mail
It measures the cash earnings that can be used to pay interest and repay the principal.
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The obligation to repay the principal plus interest placed managers under pressure to borrow only what they thought their factories could repay.
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Translations:
Chinese: 偿还
Japanese: 返済する
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