PREPAY (prepaid)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: prepaid   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does prepay mean? 

• PREPAY (verb)
  The verb PREPAY has 1 sense:

1. pay for something before receiving it

  Familiarity information: PREPAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPAY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prepay    ... he / she / it prepays   
Past simple: prepaid   
Past participle: prepaid   
-ing form: prepaying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pay for something before receiving it

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "prepay" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

prepayment (payment in advance)

 Context examples 

Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)