NOUN► debt· There would be a counterpart increase in consumer saving as the unpersuaded allowed their bank balances to grow and repaid their debts.· In addition to the inherited Banrural loans still to be repaid, new debt was encouraged by the state and private investors.
► interest· Even if the insults were skilfully repaid with interest.· Silent violence is repaid with interest.
► loan· The trick was to buy them below face value just before the homeowners repaid their loans.· Within six months, I'd repaid the forty-pound loan from my mom-in-law.· As principal on the loan is repaid, the loan outstanding reduces and capital discharged increases.
► money· This entitles him to refuse to hand them over until he has been repaid the money repayable to him.
► years· Public-sector loans were now to be repaid over 20 years and other loans over 15 years.· But Mr Pulman estimated that could be repaid within two years.· Government-backed loans would be repaid over 15 years, including an eight-year grace period.· The estimated building costs amounted to £6,800 which was to be borrowed and to be repaid within twenty-five years.
the past tense and past participle of repay