repairs

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of repair.

   The landlord postponed the repairs until after the holidays.

   Emergency repairs to the bridge closed two lanes overnight.

   Note

   The plural belongs to the countable uses: separate jobs of mending, or what they leave behind, as in costly repairs or repairs to the roof. The condition meaning stays singular and takes no article. A house is in good repair or in poor repair, never in good repairs. The same spelling also serves the present-tense verb, as in she repairs clocks.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of repair.

   The technician repairs damaged circuit boards under a magnifying lamp.

   A skilled cobbler repairs worn soles in under an hour.

   Note

   The present-tense form used after he, she, it or a singular noun. It carries every meaning of the verb, not only mending. Someone can make amends (he repairs the harm he caused) or simply go somewhere: after dinner the host repairs to the library. That movement meaning is followed by to and a place, which is the quickest way to recognize it.

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