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paying down

paying down is the present participle and gerund of pay down.

Meaning of pay down

Verb

pay down (third-person singular simple present pays down, present participle paying down, simple past and past participle paid down)

  1. (transitive) To partially repay (a loan or, metonymically, the thing financed by it).
    • He paid down his loan for the first five months.

Questions about paying down

What is paying down the present participle and gerund of?
Paying down is the present participle and gerund of pay down.

Words near paying down in the dictionary

  1. paying attention
  2. paying back
  3. paying back in someone's own coin
  4. paying dearly
  5. paying dividends
  6. paying down
  7. paying for itself
  8. paying for one's whistle
  9. paying forward
  10. paying good money after bad
  11. paying heed

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