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nonrepayment

nonrepayment noun: failure to repay.

Noun

nonrepayment (countable and uncountable, plural nonrepayments)

  1. Failure to repay.
    • Instead of default rates, the department calculated nonrepayment rates, which include both defaulters and borrowers who have never paid a single dollar of principal on their loans.2015 October 7, Kevin Carey, “Student Debt Is Worse Than You Think”, in New York Times

Forms of nonrepayment

pluralnonrepayments

Origin of nonrepayment

From non- + repayment.

Questions about nonrepayment

What does nonrepayment mean?
Nonrepayment means failure to repay.
What part of speech is nonrepayment?
Nonrepayment is a noun.
What is the plural of nonrepayment?
The plural of nonrepayment is nonrepayments.

Words near nonrepayment in the dictionary

  1. nonrepaired
  2. nonreparation
  3. nonrepatriable
  4. nonrepayable
  5. nonrepaying
  6. nonrepayment
  7. nonrepayments
  8. nonrepealable
  9. nonrepealed
  10. nonrepeat
  11. nonrepeatability

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