repay

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Synonym of pay back in all senses.
    — I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
  2. To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.
  3. To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off. transitive
    — The possible importance of excessive androgen secretion and the ingestion of agents such as the fluorenamines may repay further investigation.
  4. To give in return; requite. transitive

词形变化

repays present,singular,third-person repaying participle,present repaid participle,past repaid past repays present,singular,third-person repaying participle,present repayed participle,past repayed past repaid participle,past repaid past

词汇关系

衍生词
nonrepaying repayability repayable repayment repayor

词源

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).
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