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Definition of Repay

Repay

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.

To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

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Repay Quotations

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Arthur Ashe

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
Maria Mitchell

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
David Cameron

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
Doc Hastings

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Boris Spassky

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
Doc Hastings

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
Susan Collins

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
Basil Rathbone

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
Edward F. Halifax

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Repay Translations

repay in Dutch is restitueren, terugbetalen
repay in French is rembourser
repay in Italian is rimborsare
repay in Portuguese is reembolse
repay in Spanish is reembolsar

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