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repayable

repayable adjective: able to be repaid.

Adjective

repayable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be repaid.
    • . I owe her a debt not repayable for how she has reared William.2003, Bryan F. Le Beau, The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, →ISBN, page 30
    • The debt for being alive, the debt for being loved is only repayable by mercy.2017, Francis, Pope, Merola, Guiseppe, With the Smell of the Sheep, →ISBN
  2. to be repaid; owing.

Noun

repayable (plural repayables)

  1. An amount, a loan, etc. to be repaid.
    • Proponents long have urged that these repayables be taken out of the picture of government's running expenses.1949, Engineering News-record (volume 143, part 2, page 17)

repayable meaning in Tamil and Bengali

repayable in Tamil

மறுபடி செலுத்தத்தக்க, கொடுக்கத்தக்க

repayable in Bengali

পরিশোধযোগ্য, বকেয়া, পরিমাণ, ঋণ

Forms of repayable

pluralrepayables

Origin of repayable

From repay + -able.

Words formed from repayable

Questions about repayable

What does repayable mean?
Repayable means able to be repaid.
What is repayable in Tamil?
Repayable in Tamil is மறுபடி செலுத்தத்தக்க, கொடுக்கத்தக்க. See Repayable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is repayable?
Repayable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near repayable in the dictionary

  1. repawned
  2. repawning
  3. repawns
  4. repay
  5. repayability
  6. repayable
  7. repayables
  8. repayal
  9. repayals
  10. repayed
  11. repayer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repayable (page history and authors); repayable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repayable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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