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paying back

noun as in reprisal

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Parents have to start paying back part of the benefit once they earn a certain income, and in the March Budget, then-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the threshold would go up in April.

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“Too many nations are forced to make a choice between development and debt, between investing in their people and paying back their creditors,” Biden said.

She has been paying back £60 a month for the last four years, and will continue paying for another 11.

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The deal would also give tenants six years to finish paying back rent owed from the period between 2019 and 2024.

Ryding and the others set up crowdfunding to continue their careers and are paying back their supporters with results.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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