What's the difference between recompense and repay?

Recompense


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
  • (v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
  • (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
  • (v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
  • (n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He had raised the possibility of calling witnesses to testify "if it really is the case that legitimate lobbyists could be paid 30% of the value of a $40m contract simply as recompense for their time and trouble".
  • (2) In 1952-61 44 cases of lung cancer were reported in conjunction with radioactive substances, in 1962-85 already 1511 patients were recompensated.
  • (3) Coagulation-analysis control of the development shows clearly that shock treatment and maintenance of adequate circulation, starting at the earliest possible moment at the scene of the accident, are important for spontaneous recompensation of the hemostatic defect.
  • (4) Key findings included the following: 1) for a least 40% of outpatient schizophrenics, drugs seem to be essential for survival in the community; 2) the majority of patients who relapse after drug withdrawal recompensate fairly rapidly upon reinstitution of antipsychotic drug therapy; 3) placebo survivors seem to function as well as drug survivors--thus the benefit of maintenance drug therapy appears to be prevention of relapse; and 4) some cases of early relapse after drug withdrawal may be due to dyskinesia rather than psychotic decompensation.
  • (5) Doctors were happy with the deal, seeing a pay freeze as adequate recompense for the government backing away from patient choice.
  • (6) Preliminary loop cutaneous ureterostomy diversion allowed adequate ureteral recompensation such that ureteral tapering was unnecessary in any of these cases.
  • (7) The international community agreed to examine options for a mechanism for poor countries to seek recompense.
  • (8) Whichever way the matter is eventually settled, Johnson feels those involved in the England 2018 campaign are in effect fraud victims and should be recompensed for what has proved a considerable waste of time and money, effort and energy.
  • (9) It’s not just recompense for Benn’s historic defeat, but one better.
  • (10) Coad, representing Edmonds, said: “Noel has waited 10 years to see justice done after his business empire was brought down by Mr Dobson’s fraud, and if the Lloyds review process does not provide the recompense due to Noel, then all the necessary ordinance, including litigation funding, is in place to start legal proceedings.” Lloyds said the £100m compensation pot could be increased if necessary.
  • (11) A spokesman for the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS foundation trust said: “During the same period, NHS activity at the trust has increased by 25%; but this has been insufficiently funded under the current NHS tariff system, which is widely recognised as not recompensing highly complex work.
  • (12) It was agreed that the Obama administration would pay Tehran $1.7bn to recompense Iran for an aborted arms deal drawn up before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
  • (13) Recompensation, possibly through the use of another person as a transitional object, was noted during the illness.
  • (14) While this principle – that victims can seek recompense from those who have harmed them — is central to the law of most countries, it remains a politically contentious topic in the international context of climate change.
  • (15) I didn't buy the State of Israel being the recompense for the murder of European Jewry, recompense not being quite the right word, of course.
  • (16) This paper discusses the application of basic theories of family functioning to understanding the syndrome consisting of abnormal-illness behaviour centred around a recompensable illness or injury.
  • (17) A report is given on a patient with ischaemic heart disease, whose recompensation in tachyarrhythmia absoluta was for some times possible only by means of unusually high doses of digitoxin (fully effective dose to 5.72 mg, maintenance dose to 0.4 mg).
  • (18) China agreed to waive all claims for compensation - instead of haggling over its population's right for recompense, Beijing settled for new bridges, dams and airports.
  • (19) The Guardian columnist George Monbiot has reached what he called an "unprecedented" libel settlement with Lord McAlpine , pledging to carry out three years of charity work as recompense for Twitter messages that wrongly linked the former Conservative chairman with an allegation of child sex abuse.
  • (20) "Good conduct" showed a slight decrease as the challenging character of recompense grew smaller, but was still above the initial level.

Repay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
  • (v. t.) To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.
  • (v. t.) To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
  • (2) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (3) Several months ago, the man received about $200,000 worth of marijuana from the cartel and delivered it to another dealer, but he could not repay the cartel, according to court papers.
  • (4) Then Greece has another chance.” But the intervention by the IMF will undermine EU leaders who argue Greece must submit to a fresh round of austerity measures to release funds for debt repayments.
  • (5) Dubai World's ability to repay the bond had been seen as a key test of the state's financial health.
  • (6) Taking the evidence to the high court in London two years later, Grant Thornton were able to secure a summary judgment against Viren Rastogi, ordering him to repay $360m.
  • (7) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.
  • (8) He was also was ordered to repay more than £37,000 under the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act or face 15 further months in jail.
  • (9) Of course, saying this even while petitioning for easier repayment on Greece's mountain of debt is just another example of austerity's topsy-turvyism.
  • (10) It has proposed linking repayment of the debt to growth (the only real way of paying creditors and of guaranteeing their rights), and has indicated its desire to implement those structural reforms needed to strengthen an impoverished state left too long in the hands of corrupt elites.
  • (11) Other proposals include a requirement for PPI providers to give consumers a personal quote, clearly setting out the cost of the policy, both on its own and when added to the repayments.
  • (12) You may be able to put some of your mortgage on a repayment basis and some on an interest-only basis.
  • (13) I've got to pay £15 a week [as part of a repayment plan].
  • (14) If that is guaranteed, I am in favour of a delay in the repayment," he said, adding that the delay could be two or three years.
  • (15) Action will be needed, too, to mitigate the scale of loan repayment.
  • (16) Last Monday, INM negotiated a standstill agreement with its bondholders which gave the company another six weeks to repay a €200m debt.
  • (17) Conversely, having no credit history can be just as troublesome as having a poor rating: without a history of spending and repayments, a bank may be less willing to loan you money.
  • (18) Hours after Greece’s bailout programme with its creditors expired and the country became the first in the developed world to miss an IMF loan repayment, Greek pensioners without debit cards were at last able to withdraw some cash.
  • (19) However, if you knew how you planned to pay off £70,000, and wanted to run £30,000 on a repayment basis, moving from 4.3% to 2.89% would cut the cost from £665 to £563 a month.
  • (20) Greece missed a payment to the International Monetary Fund last week and the clock will tick down to 20 July when Greece must repay €3.5bn to the ECB – the final deadline, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.