Definition, synonyms and related words
plural of repair
"After months of neglect, the old car finally needed extensive repairs to its engine and transmission."
In plain English: Repairs are the work done to fix something that is broken so it can be used again.
"The cost of his car repairs added up quickly after the accident."
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repair
"The mechanic says he repairs engines every day at his shop."
In plain English: To repair something means to fix it so that it works again after it broke.
"I called a plumber to repair my leaking sink."
Derived from Old French reparer, repairs comes from Latin reparare meaning to make whole or restore. The term originally referred to fixing damaged structures before evolving into its modern sense of mending broken objects.