"pay down" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: pays down [present, singular, third-person], paying down [participle, present], paid down [participle, past], paid down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|pay<,,paid> down}} pay down (third-person singular simple present pays down, present participle paying down, simple past and past participle paid down)
  1. (transitive) To partially repay (a loan or, metonymically, the thing financed by it). Tags: transitive Derived forms: paydown [noun] Related terms: down payment, pay back [verb]

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