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Definitions: Repayment |
RepaymentNoun1. The act of returning money received previously. 2. Payment of a debt or obligation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repayment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | The exchange of securities for cash or other securities at the time they mature. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RepaymentSynonyms: quittance (n), refund (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Payment | Repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay;(reward); money paid; (expenditure). |
Disgorge, make repayment; repay, refund, reimburse, retribute; make compensation;. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The High Contracting Parties waive reciprocally all repayment of sums due for the maintenance of prisoners of war in their respective territories. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The program guarantees repayment to a lender in the event an exporter defaults. (references) | |
These are projects with anticipated cash flows that can cover debt-service repayment to lenders and payment of dividends to shareholders. (references) | ||
In these cases, materials handling selling strategies must concentrate on quality factors, performance advantages and repayment schedules. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Iraq | The penalties for noncompliance include, but are not limited to, loss of the spouse's job, a substantial financial penalty, and repayment of any governmental educational expenses. (references) |
Economic History | Israel | Total repayment does not exceed 150 percent of the grant. (references) |
Oman | Formerly interest free, the program now charges 4 percent interest, with long repayment terms. (references) | |
Political Economy | GERMANY | Repayment is contingent on future sales of the airplane. (references) |
TUNISIA | Tunisia has never requested to rescheduling its debt repayment. (references) | |
PAKISTAN | Debt repayment absorbed approximately 40 percent of the government's budget. (references) | |
Trade | Jordan | In such cases, it requires debt repayment in foreign currency. (references) |
India | The importers also needs to provide surety and repayment liability. (references) | |
Romania | Maximum long-term credits are $8 million, the repayment period being 3 to 17 years. (references) | |
Women | Equatorial Guinea | Government representatives visited villages during the year to encourage local officials, village chiefs, and the police to encourage the substitution of gifts for cash to eliminate the problem of dowry repayment. (references) |
Worker Rights | Russia | Amnesty International charged that a 1995 Russian-North Korean bilateral agreement allows for the exchange of free labor for debt repayment, although the Russian Government claims that a 1999 intergovernmental agreement gives North Korean citizens working in Russia the same legal protections as Russian citizens. (references) |
Brazil | For example, the CUT joined with the National Conference of Bishops, the Landless Movement (MST), and a variety of NGO's to conduct a national plebiscite on debt repayment in September 2000 and to organize the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in January 2001. The major union centrals have close relationships with left-of-center political parties and often coordinate actions with party leaders. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Repayment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Repayment" is used about 713 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.86% | 712 | 9,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 713 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "repayment": allow repayment by installments ♦ allow repayment by instalments ♦ annual repayment ♦ early repayment ♦ repayment mortgage ♦ repayment of borrowings ♦ repayment of principle ♦ repayment period ♦ repayment rate. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "repayment": debt-repayment, non-repayment. | |
Containing "repayment": short-repayment-period. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "repayment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | annuïteit (instalment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpërblim (bonus, compensation, consideration, desert, deserts, guerdon, honor, honorarium, honour, kudos, meed, pay, payment, premium, recompense, recoupment, remuneration, render, reparations, requital, return, reward), shlyerje borxhi, kthim parash (refund, reimbursement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكافأة (consideration, hay, incentive, pay, pay off, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, retribution, reward, rewarding), مجازاة, وفاء دين, وفاء بالدين, تعويض (amends, atonement, indemnification, indemnity, quid pro quo, recompense, remuneration, reparation, restitution), رد الدين (pay back), رد (answer, answer back, beat, counter, disallow, drive back, pay, pay back, put off, rebound, rebuff, rebut, rebuttal, rejoinder, render, repay, repercussion, reply, respond, response, retrieve, return, reverberate, reversion, riposte, spurn, turn away). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | върната сума, отплата (meed, nemesis, payoff, quittance, recompense, remuneration, requital, retaliation, retort, return, reward, wage), изплащане (disbursement, discharge, liquidation, payment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 报恩. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zaplacení (discharge), vyrovnání (compensation, equalization, equilibration, settlement), uhrazení, splátka (installment, instalment, payment), proplacení, odmìna (award, fee, gratuity, guerdon, meed, payoff, premium, prize, recompense, remuneration, return, reward, variant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilbagekoeb (amortization, redemption, retirement), tilbagebetaling (amortization, rebate, redemption, reduction, refund, retirement), indløsning (amortization, redemption, retirement), indfrielse (amortization, redemption, retirement, settlement), genopkoeb (amortization, redemption, retirement), amortisation (amortisation, amortization, debt retirement, redemption, repayment of borrowings, retirement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | annuïteit (annuity, instalment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | anuitato (instalment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرداخت مجدد, غرامت (Damage, Fine, Indemnity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | takaisinmaksu (refund, reimbursement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | remboursement (method of reimbursement, rebate, redemption, refund, reimbursement, retirement, reversal, reversing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rückzahlung (amortization, payment, rebate, redemption, refund, retirement), Tilgung (acquittance, acquittances, amortisation, amortization, amortizement, cancellation, debt retirement, deletion, discharge, erasure, extinction, liquidation, payment, receipt, redemption, repayment of borrowings, retirement, satisfaction, wiping out), Vergeltung (quittance, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξόφληση (acquitance, amortization, method of reimbursement, pay off, payment, quietus, quittance, redemption, reimbursement, retirement), εξαγορά (acquisition, amortization, buying, buying off, ransom, redemption, repurchase, retirement, take-over), ανταπόδοση (reciprocation, requital, restitution, retaliation), απόσβεση (amortisation, amortization, attenuation, cushioning, damping, deadening, debt retirement, depreciation, extinction, payment, quenching, redemption, repayment of borrowings, retirement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "חזר תשלום, 'מול (bereft, earnings, offset, payment, recompense, requital, retaliation, retribution, reward, wage, weanling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | viszonzás (compensation, offset, reciprocation, recompense, requital, return), visszafizetés (rebate, redeeming, redemption, refund, reimbursement), törlesztés (amortization, pay off, redeeming, redemption), térítés (allowance, proselytization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | imbalan (wage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rimborso (amortization, rebate, recovery, redemption, reduction, refund, reimbursement, retirement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "金 , "済 , "却 (return of something), 払い戻し (refundment), 償還 (amortization, redemption), 償却 (amortization, redemption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうきゃく (amortization, destroy by fire, effacement, erasure, guest of honor, incineration, paying back debt, redemption), しょうか" (admiral, amortization, firm, general, killing time, lull, petty official, recall, redemption, short break or breather, short interval of leisure, summons, trading company), へ"きゃく (return of something), へ"き", へ"さい (accident, disaster), はらいもどし (refundment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 반 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aayeeilley (compensate, compensation, rebate, recoup, repay, retribution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epaymentray reembolso (amortization, redemption, refund, reimbursement, retirement, return of payment). (various references) restituire (refund, refundment, reimbursement, restitution, restoration), recompensã (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, award, compensation, consideration, desert, hire, pay, prize, recompense, remuneration, requital, retribution, reward), rambursare (drawback, refund, refundment, reimbursement), ramburs (cash on delivery, paid for on delivery, return). (various references) вознаграждение (compensation, gratification, payment, remuneration, requital, reward), возмещение (atonement, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quittance, recoupment, recovery, redress, refund, reimbursement, reparation, solatium). (various references) vraćanje novca. (various references) reembolso (amortization, method of reimbursement, paying, rebate, redemption, refund, reimbursement, retirement, satisfaction), anualidad (annuity, instalment). (various references) återbetalning (back pay, refund, refunds, restitution, return). (various references) การชำระคืน. (various references) karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterpart, counterweigh, equivalent, offset, payment, payoff, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, quittance, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, reply, requital, response, return, reward, riposte, wages), geri verme (give back, reimbursement, restoration, retrocession, return), ödeme (atonement, clearance, conciliation, disbursement, discharge, inpayment, pay, payment, payoff, redemption, redress, remuneration, rendering, satisfaction, settlement). (various references) відшкодування (amends, consideration, indemnity, offset, quittance, recovery, redress, refund, reimbursement, restitution), повернення грошей. (various references) sự trả lại sự báo đáp, sự đền đáp (consideration, requital, retribution, return). (various references) ad-daliad, ad-dal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vice, vicem, vices, vici, vicibus, vicis, vicum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "repayment": repayments. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "repayment": prepayment. (additional references) | |
Words containing "repayment": prepayments. (additional references) | |
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"Repayment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erbamont, repayement, repoman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "repayment" (pronounced rēpā"munt) |
| 8 | r ē p ā" m u n t | prepayment. |
| 6 | -p ā" m u n t | copayment, nonpayment, payment. |
| 5 | -ā" m u n t | claimant, embayment. |
| 4 | -m u n t | abandonment, abatement, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-n-p-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: empyrean, permeant. | |
-2 letters: payment, prename, tempera. | |
-3 letters: ampere, arpent, eatery, empery, enrapt, entera, entrap, marten, meaner, metepa, napery, neater, pantry, parent, preman, premen, pyrene, remate, rename, repeat, repent, retape, reteam, retype, tamper, temper, trepan, tympan. | |
-4 letters: ameer, ament, antre, apery, apter, arete, armet, arpen, eaten, eater, emery, empty, enate, enema, enemy, enter, entry, etape. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-n-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: prepayment, repayments. | |
+2 letters: hymenoptera, overpayment, permanently, prepayments. | |
+3 letters: hymenopteran, impenetrably, overpayments, underpayment. | |
+4 letters: complementary, hymenopterans, impermanently, intemperately, predominately, pyrimethamine, sempiternally, supplementary, underpayments. | |
+5 letters: departmentally, experimentally, extemporaneity, hyperemotional, pancreatectomy, premenstrually, pyrimethamines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 61 79 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .- -.--. -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01100001 01111001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p a y m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0061 0079 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182679179718086 |
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