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REPAYABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repayable mean? 

REPAYABLE (adjective)
  The adjective REPAYABLE has 1 sense:

1. subject to repaymentplay

  Familiarity information: REPAYABLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REPAYABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to repayment

Context example:

business loans are usually repayable in regular installments

Similar:

due (owed and payable immediately or on demand)


 Context examples 


“However, my”—he pulled himself up and coughed in a consequential way—“my financial agent has arranged for a loan, repayable upon the King’s death.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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