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To prepay is to pay for something before you need it or use it. You can prepay rent, prepay a hotel, prepay postage. It is a slightly formal or office-sounding verb; in everyday talk people often say pay in advance or pay first. Shops and phone shops use the adjective far more than this verb — you buy a card, you rarely hear someone say I will prepay the card. Though actually, careful English prepays the cost, not the thing: you prepay the rent, you do not “prepay the flat,” even if ads get loose with it. The noun for the money, or for that early paying, is prepayment.
預付、預繳
組成From pre- + pay. Pre- (before) comes from Latin prae- through Middle English; pay is to give money for something.
同家族的字
- paythe verb this is built from
- prepaidthe adjective: already paid for in advance
- prepaymentthe noun: the money, or the act of paying early
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prepayverb
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To pay in advance, or beforehand
- to prepay postage
- to prepay phone credit
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。