Sentence examples for it paid down from inspiring English sources

No. 13 U.S. grocery-chain operator Winn-Dixie Stores on Monday said it paid down $100 million of its debt earlier than planned, using excess free cash flow from its operations.

BLOOMBERG NEWS Billabong Gets $540 Million Lifeline From Private Equity  |  The Australian surfwear company said Thursday it had agreed to accept the financing offer from Centerbridge Partners and Oaktree Capital to help it pay down debt and restructure its loss-making operations.

Mr. Dorodjatun announced Monday that Indonesia would accept post-program monitoring while it pays down the roughly $10 billion it will still owe the fund.

But BAE generated £1.7 billion in cash during the year and used most of it pay down debt, ending the year with £5 million in free cash.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc., the owner of the Sheraton and Westin chains, said yesterday that it had agreed to sell 14 hotels to a group of investors for $312 million as it pays down debt.

U.S. Industries, the maker of Jacuzzi hot tubs, agreed to sell its European lighting business to J. P. Morgan Chase for about 120 million euros ($118.4 million) to help it pay down debt.

But this may have been explained by special factors, including the Treasury's plan to buy back a lot of longer-term debt as it pays down the nation's debt with growing federal budget surpluses.

Ford Motor is offering 300.0 million shares to help it pay down obligations to fund healthcare for retired union workers; while Anadarko Petroleum priced a public offering of 30.0 million shares of common stock at $45.50 apiece.

Plus it pays down the national debt.

I'm going to use it pay down debt and place the rest of it in savings, because I hate America!

"It has paid down debt quite aggressively since November '98," when it acquired debt of nearly $7 billion, Mr. Sheehan said.