"repayment" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: repayment [singular], repayments [plural]
Etymology: repay + -ment or re- + payment Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|repay|ment}} repay + -ment, {{ety-prefix|re|payment}} re- + payment Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A repayment the act of giving back money, or a part of the money, that you have borrowed.
    Sense id: simple-repayment-en-noun-uTymeG9y
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with re-, Terms suffixed with -ment
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