Repays
[ri:'peiz]
Examples
- She repays me twenty-thousandfold, and twenty more to that, every hour in every day! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He repays your expense in him, Casaubon, he went on, nodding encouragingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now he repays me by this robbery! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was an immediate outlay, but it repays me in the saving of coal. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The town repays this supply, by sending back a part of the manufactured produce to the inhabitants of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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