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repayment rate

repayment rate

1 3.6
The amount of money you pay back for a loan during a set time
  • noun
  • Specialized
: tasa de reembolso
  • Therefore, repayment rates appear to be a real-time indicator of stress in agricultural lending.
  • loan repayment rates
  • repayment rate is 95 percent
  • lower repayment rates

And what's most concerning is watching the the repayment rate at the default rate.

Examples

  • In addition, bankers may be more likely to report higher farm loan repayment rates because of correspondingly higher commodity prices and farm incomes.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Farm loan repayment rates are good indicators of stress in agricultural lending for several reasons.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Map 2 uses raw data from the survey to show how repayment rates varied across the District in one particular quarter.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Collecting data on farm loan repayment rates.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Interest rates have a positive and significant effect on the likelihood that a banker will report lower repayment rates.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Conversely, the decline in repayment rates seems to have been more in line with the decline in the farm economy more recently.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Loan repayment rates, however, are tied to farm liquidity rather than farm equity.

    Academic text (2018)

  • To gauge stress in agricultural lending, I use measures of farm loan repayment rates from the Ag Credit Survey.

    Academic text (2018)

  • In both years, a larger share of bankers in Kansas, Nebraska, and eastern Colorado reported lower farm loan repayment rates.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The bank reported a high average repayment rate of 95 percent for personal loans over the past year.

Synonyms

installment
vsrepayment rate
  • US
25 3.2

One part of the total cost paid regularly over time

refers to the total amount returned during a period rather than one single payment
rate of payment
vsrepayment rate
1 2.7

The amount of money paid for each hour or work period

focuses on sums returned on debts during a chosen period rather than general wages
installment rate
vsrepayment rate
  • US
1 3.4

An amount of money you pay regularly to repay a loan or buy something

covers sums returned over any chosen period rather than only scheduled amounts

Antonyms

nonpayment
3 4.1

Someone does not pay money they owe

How Fast

repayment rate
  • Specialized
1 3.6

Surface Forms

repayment rate singular
repayment rates plural

Morphology

repayment + rate

The meaning 'amount of money paid back over a period' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'repayment' (returning borrowed funds) with 'rate' (amount per unit/time). This noun–noun composition follows ordinary compounding patterns common across languages and in financial contexts, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The phrase repayment rate paints a simple picture: imagine repayment as money flowing back to a lender like water in a pipe, and the rate shows how much comes back in a set time. So, repayment rate means the amount of money paid back over a period, and a higher rate clears the debt faster.