What does repayment mean?

Definitions for repayment
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. refund, repaymentnoun

    the act of returning money received previously

  2. repayment, quittancenoun

    payment of a debt or obligation

Wiktionary

  1. repaymentnoun

    the act of repaying

  2. repaymentnoun

    the money or other resource that is repaid

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Repaymentnoun

    Etymology: from repay.

    The centesima usura it was not lawful to exceed; and what was paid over it, was reckoned as a repayment of part of the principal. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

ChatGPT

  1. repayment

    Repayment is the act of paying back money previously borrowed from a lender, which can include banks, credit card companies, or individuals. It often involves payment of the principal amount along with interest over a certain period of time, according to agreed upon terms, which can be in form of installments or a lump sum payment. Failure in repayment can result in penalties or legal action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Repaymentnoun

    the act of repaying; reimbursement

  2. Repaymentnoun

    the money or other thing repaid

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'repayment' in Nouns Frequency: #2801

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of repayment in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of repayment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of repayment in a Sentence

  1. Stormy Daniels:

    I think it's very likely there's criminal liability associated with how this repayment was structured, relating to what was disclosed from a campaign finance perspective.

  2. Rebecca Dow:

    I would support targeted scholarships and/or loan repayment for students seeking degrees/certification in( New Mexico's) high demand jobs, i believe there needs to be a work or volunteer commitment to New Mexico to receive any scholarship from our state funds.

  3. Greg McBride:

    Turbocharge your debt repayment efforts with a 0% balance transfer offer, some lasting as long as 21 months. This insulates you from further rate hikes and gives you a runway to get the debt paid off once and for all.

  4. James Kvaal:

    Under existing plans, any remaining balance will be forgiven after 20 years of payments, but we’re also giving borrowers with smaller loans a path to forgiveness in 10 years, one shortcoming of the existing IDR (income-driven repayment) plans is that all borrowers must be in repayment for up to 20 years, even if they only enrolled in college for a semester or two or borrowed a few thousand dollars.

  5. Oliver Barron:

    Given that CBRC (China Banking Regulatory Commission) has already said that the key task for 2016 will be risk control, it's quite telling that they're now telling banks to reduce these WMP yields, many trust loans, for instance, were issued two years ago when commodity prices were still sky high, and any products that sent funds to those parts of the industrial sector may have repayment difficulties at the old high rates.

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