repayment
Returning borrowed money
Repayment is the act of paying back money that was borrowed or owed: The loan requires monthly repayments over five years.
It extends to non-monetary contexts—repaying a favor, kindness, or wrong: His betrayal was poor repayment for years of loyalty.
The word implies obligation fulfilled or debt settled.
Punishing a wrongdoer
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
reprisal · punishment · reciprocity · karma · settling scores · nemesis · just deserts · reckoning
Borrowed money repaid later
- mortgageSecured home loan
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
- amortizationGradual debt reduction schedule
- principalChief school administrator
interest · creditor · borrower · lender · default · arrears · overdue · foreclosure
Payment for services rendered
- amendsCompensation for wrongdoing
- redressCompensation for injury
- reparationCompensation for injury done
- indemnificationCompensation for loss suffered
rectification · atonement · recompense · damages · remuneration · remedy · restoration · making whole
Payment for incurred expenses
- rebateReturned portion of payment
- cashbackRefund from spending
- moneybackReimbursement of purchase price
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
return · recovery · recoupment · remittance · adjustment · exchange · chargeback · reversal
Required moral task
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- promiseCommitment to act
- pledgeBinding promise given
covenant · liability · accountability · bond · indebtedness · honor · fulfillment · discharge
revenge
Punishing a wrongdoer
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
comeuppance · reprisal · punishment · reciprocity · karma · settling scores · nemesis · just deserts · reckoning · eye for an eye
loan
Borrowed money repaid later
- mortgageSecured home loan
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
- amortizationGradual debt reduction schedule
principal · interest · creditor · borrower · lender · default · arrears · overdue · foreclosure · refinancing
compensation
Payment for services rendered
- amendsCompensation for wrongdoing
- redressCompensation for injury
- reparationCompensation for injury done
indemnification · rectification · atonement · recompense · damages · remuneration · remedy · restoration · making whole · apology
reimbursement
Payment for incurred expenses
- rebateReturned portion of payment
- cashbackRefund from spending
- moneybackReimbursement of purchase price
credit · return · recovery · recoupment · remittance · adjustment · exchange · chargeback · reversal · claim
duty
Required moral task
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- promiseCommitment to act
pledge · covenant · liability · accountability · bond · indebtedness · honor · fulfillment · discharge · settlement
- credit termsloans, installment loan, credit limits, credit cards, interest rate
- sovereign lendingsovereign debt, national debt, debt relief, debt restructuring, bailouts
- debtdebt, creditor, owe, debtor, lender
- loansloan, loans, lend, borrow, auto loans
- paymentscredit cards, debit cards, credit card, debit card, paycheck
- returnsreturn, rebound, comeback, bounce back, give back
repaymentborrowing
Temporary taking of another's
debt · loan · credit · indebtedness · default
repaymentforfeiture
Loss due to breach
penalty · loss · foreclosure · write-off · handicap
- repayment scheduleTimetable for settling debt
- repayment planTerms for returning borrowed funds
- loan repaymentReturning borrowed money
- debt repaymentSatisfying financial obligations
- repayment termsLoan payback arrangement
- repayment periodTime to settle debt