(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.
Restore
Definition:
(v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
(v. t.) To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.
(v. t.) To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.
(v. t.) To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.
(v. t.) To make good; to make amends for.
(v. t.) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.
(v. t.) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.
(n.) Restoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(2) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(3) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
(4) However, the presence of these two molecules was restored if testosterone was supplemented immediately after orchiectomy.
(5) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
(6) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(7) Full activity could be restored by addition of nanogram amounts of endotoxin or of FCS before assay.
(8) Cryopreserved autologous blood cells may thus restore some patients with CGL in transformation to chronic-phase disease and so may help to prolong life.
(9) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(10) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(11) Exogenous rIL-2 restored T-cell proliferation only in the salivary gland cultures of this patient.
(12) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(13) Nonetheless, anatomical continuity was restored at the site of injury, axons projected across this region, and rostral spinal and brainstem neurons could be retrogradely labelled following HRP injections administered caudal to the lesion.
(14) Considerable glucose 6-phosphatase activity survived 240min of treatment with phospholipase C at 5 degrees C, but in the absence of substrate or at physiological glucose 6-phosphate concentrations the delipidated enzyme was completely inactivated within 10min at 37 degrees C. However, 80mM-glucose 6-phosphate stabilized it and phospholipid dispersions substantially restored thermal stability.
(15) The specific fluorescence was affected following reserpine or 6-hydroxydopamine treatment; however, the rewarming process restored fluorescence only in the reserpine-treated tissue.
(16) These two latter techniques were developed in an attempt to restore normal left ventricular geometry.
(17) The improvement in the two groups of patients was statistically comparable to the relief of pain and the over-all restoration of function.
(18) Co2+ partially restored the activities lost by chelation.
(19) at 13:00 h which restored DNA replication to follicles of Stages 2-10: FSH acted primarily on Stages 2-5 and LH on Stages 5-10.
(20) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.