forepay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

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"The express charges were forepaid, and the box iron-bound. This last was a good precaution, for otherwise the box had gone to pieces long before reaching this point."

From fore- + pay.

forepays (present, singular) forepaying (participle, present) forepaid (participle, past) forepaid (past)

prepay

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