REPAYING

Definition: REPAYING

REPAYING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Repay

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "REPAYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: REPAYING

English words defined with "REPAYING": welcher, welsher. (references)

Specialty definitions using "REPAYING": deed in lieu of foreclosure ♦ joint and several obligation. (references)

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Commercial Usage: REPAYING

Domain	Title
Books	Recovery of loans from farmers : repaying capacity and repayment performance (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: REPAYING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Rehabilitation client repaying loan. Kinston, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: REPAYING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Thailand	Thailand began repaying the IMF in November 2000 and will begin repaying other donors to the IMF package this year. (references)
	Kenya	Kenya's official debt has been rescheduled in the Paris Club, and the country, while sometimes late, is repaying its debts. (references)
Human Rights	Equatorial Guinea	Authorities often detain both men and women for failure to repay a dowry following the dissolution of a marriage; however, only divorced women or their responsible male relatives are imprisoned for not repaying a dowry. (references)
Worker Rights	Cambodia	Young children, the majority of them girls, often are "pledged" as collateral for loans by desperately poor parents to brokers or middlemen; the child then is held responsible for repaying the loan and accumulated interest. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: REPAYING

"REPAYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "REPAYING" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	76	38,217

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: REPAYING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
repaying student loan	11
loan repaying	3
grant loan repaying student	2
loan repaying school	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: REPAYING

Language		Translations for "REPAYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		回报 (render, Rendered, rendering, Repaid, repay). (various references)

German		zurückzahlend (rebating, refunding). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� �謝 (repaying a favor), � �恩 (gratitude, repaying a kindness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほうお�" (gratitude, repaying a kindness), ほうしゃ (borax, emission, gun carriage, radiation, repaying a favor). (various references)

Korean		상환. (various references)

Pig Latin		epayingray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: REPAYING

Derivations
	Words ending with "REPAYING": prepaying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"REPAYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: repaing, reparing, resaying, respraying. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "REPAYING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "REPAYING" (pronounced rēpā"ing)
6	r ē p ā" i ng	prepaying.
4	-p ā" i ng	nonpaying, paying.
3	-ā" i ng	allaying, baying, betraying, buffeting, conveying, crocheting, decaying, delaying, dismaying, disobeying, displaying, doomsaying, fraying, graying, Haying, laying, obeying, overplaying, playing, portraying, praying, preying, replaying, saying, slaying, spraying, staying, straying, surveying, swaying, weighing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: REPAYING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: praying, preying, reaping.
	-2 letters: anergy, earing, gainer, grainy, grapey, gripey, napery, panier, paring, paying, pinery, pinger, prying, rapine, raping, raying, reagin, regain, regina.
	-3 letters: anger, angry, apery, aping, arpen, eying, gaper, garni, gayer, genip, grain, grape, grapy, gripe, gripy, pager, parge, payer, piney, prang, pyran, rainy, range, rangy, regna, reign, renig, repay, repin.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-p-r-y"
	+1 letter: panegyric, pargyline, parleying, prepaying, replaying.
	+2 letters: overpaying, panegyrics, panegyrist, pargylines, pigmentary, reapplying, respraying.
	+3 letters: copyreading, impregnably, overplaying, panegyrical, panegyrists, preachingly, repacifying, tapestrying, underpaying.
	+4 letters: despairingly, interplaying, preachifying, pregnability, redisplaying, underplaying.
	+5 letters: deprecatingly, hypervigilant, panegyrically, penetratingly, pharyngitides, prequalifying, reproachingly, saprogenicity.
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