REPAYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repayment mean? 

• REPAYMENT (noun)
  The noun REPAYMENT has 2 senses:

1. the act of returning money received previously

2. payment of a debt or obligation

  Familiarity information: REPAYMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPAYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of returning money received previously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

refund; repayment

Hypernyms ("repayment" is a kind of...):

defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)

Derivation:

repay (pay back)

repay (make repayment for or return something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Payment of a debt or obligation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

quittance; repayment

Hypernyms ("repayment" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repayment"):

redemption (repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock))

Derivation:

repay (pay back)

repay (make repayment for or return something)

 Context examples 

His liberality had a rich repayment, and the general goodness of his intentions by her deserved it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We proposed that the family should have their passage and their outfit, and a hundred pounds; and that Mr. Micawber's arrangement for the repayment of the advances should be gravely entered into, as it might be wholesome for him to suppose himself under that responsibility.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)