verb
Meaning 1
To pay in advance, or beforehand
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to prepay postage
- to prepay phone credit
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prepay
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Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: P R IY0 P EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
pay for something before receiving it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pay
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh2- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh2i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English pay English prepay From pre- + pay.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: предплащам (predplaštam) — to pay in advance
- Esperanto: afranki — to pay in advance
- Esperanto: antaŭpagi — to pay in advance
- Finnish: maksaa ennakkoon — to pay in advance
- French: prépayer — to pay in advance
- Greek: προπληρώνω (propliróno) — to pay in advance
- Hungarian: előre fizet — to pay in advance
- Hungarian: előre kifizet — to pay in advance
- Hungarian: bérmentesít — to pay in advance