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paying back
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun paying back has 1 sense
- paying back(n = noun.act) getting even, return - a reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good as we got" is a kind of group action
has particulars: payment, requital, retaliation, revenge, reciprocation, tit for tat
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