pay back (third-person singular simple present pays back, present participle paying back, simple past and past participle paid back)
- (transitive) To pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.
- 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:
- Douglas: Roy, give me £20.
Roy: What?
Douglas: Give me £20. I'll pay you back.
He paid her back with interest, giving her ₿3 and an NFT for the $6 he'd borrowed last week. He paid back all the money he owed her, with interest.
- (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.
to repay
- Arabic: جَازَى (jāzā)
- Armenian: վճարել (hy) (včarel), մարել (hy) (marel)
- Bikol Central: balos (bcl)
- Bulgarian: връщам пари (vrǎštam pari), разплащам се (razplaštam se)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 賠／赔 (zh) (péi), 報償／报偿 (zh) (bàocháng), 償／偿 (zh) (cháng), 償還／偿还 (zh) (chánghuán)
- Danish: tilbagebetale
- Dutch: terugbetalen (nl)
- Esperanto: repagi
- Finnish: maksaa takaisin, palauttaa (fi), hyvittää (fi), maksaa (fi)
- French: rembourser (fr), rendre (fr)
- German: zurückzahlen (de)
- Greek: εξοφλώ (el) (exofló)
- Ancient: ἀποτίνω (apotínō)
- Icelandic: endurgjalda
- Irish: aisíoc
- Italian: ripagare (it), restituire (it)
- Japanese: 払い戻す (ja) (はらいもどす, haraimodosu)
- Korean: 갚다 (ko) (gapda)
- Latin: rependō
- Maori: whakautu, whakautu moni
- Norman: s'atchitter
- Old English: ġieldan, forġieldan
- Portuguese: devolver (pt)
- Quechua: hunt'apuy
- Russian: отплатить (ru) pf (otplatitʹ), расплатиться (ru) pf (rasplatitʹsja)
- Scots: foryeild
- Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìol
- Spanish: devolver (es)
- Swahili: kulipa (sw)
- Swedish: betala tillbaka, betala tillbaks (colloquial), betala bak (colloquial)
- Vietnamese: trả (vi)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: bales
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