"prepay" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: prepays [present, singular, third-person], prepaying [participle, present], prepaid [past], prepayed [participle, past], prepaid [participle, past]
Rhymes: -eɪ Etymology: From pre- + pay. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|pay}} pre- + pay Head templates: {{en-verb|prepays|prepaying|prepaid|prepayed|past_ptc2=prepaid}} prepay (third-person singular simple present prepays, present participle prepaying, simple past prepaid, past participle prepayed or prepaid)
  1. To pay in advance, or beforehand Synonyms: forepay Translations (to pay in advance): предплащам (predplaštam) (Bulgarian), afranki (Esperanto), antaŭpagi (Esperanto), maksaa ennakkoon (Finnish), prépayer (French), προπληρώνω (propliróno) (Greek), előre fizet (Hungarian), előre kifizet (Hungarian), bérmentesít (note: cf. frank) (Hungarian)

Inflected forms

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