repayment

«repayment» in Mova's school dictionary: Paying back money that you borrowed — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a repayment, repayments; also uncountable repayment)

meaning for a pupil

1) (money) Paying back money that you borrowed. tree →

2) (money) One of a set of regular amounts paid back on a loan, such as the monthly payment on a mortgage or car. tree →

3) Doing something in return for help or harm: «in repayment for your kindness». tree →

sense in the lessons

In adult life repayments are paid on loans, mortgages and credit cards, usually with extra money called interest. In maths word problems, repayments are equal parts of a total: a 600 dollar loan repaid in 6 repayments means 100 dollars each (if there is no interest). Phrases: «monthly repayments», «make a repayment», «loan repayment», «miss a repayment».

examples

• Mum and Dad make a mortgage repayment every month. tree →
• The loan has twelve monthly repayments. tree →
• If you miss a repayment, the bank may charge more. tree →
• Tom gave Sam two chocolate bars in repayment for the pen. tree →
• Each repayment is 50 pounds. tree →
• The repayments on the car are quite high. tree →
• She finished the last repayment and owned the bike outright. tree →
• The day for repayment came, but the poor man had not a single copeck. tree →

note

Countable for single payments («three repayments»), uncountable for the idea («repayment of the loan»). Verb: repay (repaid). In maths: total paid = repayment × number of repayments; with interest, the total paid is more than the money borrowed.

In the corpora

• Debt becomes a problem when the repayments are more than the family can afford.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «repayment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.