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REPAYABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does repayable mean?
• REPAYABLE (adjective)
The adjective REPAYABLE has 1 sense:
1. subject to repayment
Familiarity information: REPAYABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to repayment
Context example:
business loans are usually repayable in regular installments
Similar:
due (owed and payable immediately or on demand)
Context examples
“However, my”—he pulled himself up and coughed in a consequential way—“my financial agent has arranged for a loan, repayable upon the King’s death.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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