repayable

An amount, a loan, etc. to be repaid.

Adjective

  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.

Origin

Etymology tree English repay Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English repayable From repay + -able.

Derived

non-repayable nonrepayable unrepayable

Noun

  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)

Forms

repayables