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payback
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun payback has 2 senses
- payback(n = noun.possession) Array - financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment); Array is a kind of issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield
- payback(n = noun.act) retribution, vengeance - the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" is a kind of retaliation, revenge
Derived form verb pay back2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
payback, n.
1 a financial return; a reward.
2 the profit from an investment etc., esp. one equal to the initial outlay.
1 a financial return; a reward.
2 the profit from an investment etc., esp. one equal to the initial outlay.
Idiom
payback period the length of time required for an investment to pay for itself in terms of profits or savings.
ROGET THESAURUS
payback
Retaliation
N retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback, counter- stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project, retribution, lex talionis, reciprocation, tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play, reproof valiant, retort courteous, recrimination, revenge, compensation, reaction, retaliating, retaliatory, retaliative, talionic, in retaliation, en revanche, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, par pari refero, tu quoque, you too, you're another, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo, a beau jeu beau retour, litem _รง, lite resolvit.
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