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pays down

pays down is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pays down

What is pays down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pays down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay down.

Words near pays down in the dictionary

  1. pays back in someone's own coin
  2. pays d'état
  3. Pays de la Loire
  4. pays dearly
  5. pays dividends
  6. pays down
  7. pays for itself
  8. pays for one's whistle
  9. pays forward
  10. pays good money after bad
  11. pays heed

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