Home › Words › N › nonrepaymentnonrepaymentnonrepayment means failure to repay.EtymologyFrom non- + repayment.nounFailure to repay.e.g.“Instead of default rates, the department calculated nonrepayment rates, which include both defaulters and borrowers who have never paid a single dollar of principal on their loans.” — 2015 October 7, Kevin Carey, “Student Debt Is Worse Than You Think”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).