repayable

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adjective

Able to be repaid.

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Meanings

adjectiverepayable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAble to be repaid.

    . I owe her a debt not repayable for how she has reared William.

    2003, Bryan F. Le Beau, The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, →ISBN, page 30
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    The debt for being alive, the debt for being loved is only repayable by mercy.

    2017, Francis, Pope, Merola, Guiseppe, With the Smell of the Sheep, →ISBN
  2. not comparablebusinessto be repaid; owing.
nounrepayable (plural repayables)

plural repayables

  1. An amount, a loan, etc. to be repaid.

    Proponents long have urged that these repayables be taken out of the picture of government's running expenses.

    1949, Engineering News-record (volume 143, part 2, page 17)

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivesubject to repayment

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Chicago

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