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- Dictionarypay·back/ˈpāˌbak/
noun
- 1. financial return or reward, especially profit equal to the initial outlay of an investment: "a long time lag between investment and payback"
- 2. an act of revenge or retaliation: "the drive-by shootings are mainly paybacks"
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The meaning of PAYBACK is requital. How to use payback in a sentence. requital; a return on an investment equal to the original capital outlay; also : the period of time elapsed before an investment is recouped…
payback noun [C or U] (SOMETHING BAD) something bad that is done to you because of something bad that you have done previously: The problems she was experiencing felt like payback for her past mistakes. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Idiom. payback's a bitch.
An act of retaliation, or hurting someone who's hurt you, is one meaning of payback. A small kind of payback might be stealing one of your friend's cookies after she's snagged a few of your French fries; a huge payback is when two warring countries use increasingly deadly weapons against each other.
1. countable noun [usually singular] You can use payback to refer to the profit or benefit that you obtain from something that you have spent money, time, or effort on. [mainly US] There is a substantial payback in terms of employee and union relations.
noun. the period of time required to recoup a capital investment. the return on an investment: This fund yields a payback of 15 percent tax-free. the act or fact of paying back; repayment. something done in retaliation: Excluding them from her wedding was a vicious payback for years of being snubbed. verb phrase. to repay or return; pay off:
PAYBACK meaning: 1 : punishment for something that was done in the past; 2 : an amount of money that you receive after investing in something and that is equal to or greater than the amount of money that you originally invested usually singular sometimes used figuratively.
the advantage or reward that somebody receives for something they have done; the act of paying something back. His victory was seen as payback for all the hard work he'd put in during training. (informal) It's payback time! (= a person will have to suffer for what they have done) See payback in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
Jul 1, 2015 · pay back. 1. phrasal verb B1. If you pay back some money that you have borrowed or taken from someone, you give them an equal sum of money at a later time. After several deadlines, David had failed to pay back any of the money. [VERB PARTICLE noun] I'll pay you back that two quid tomorrow. [VERB noun PARTICLE noun] [ Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
verb. act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions. synonyms: repay, reward. see more. verb. take vengeance on or get even. synonyms: fix, get, pay off. pay. make a compensation for.
noun. The act or an instance of paying back. Webster's New World. Return, as on an investment of capital. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Retribution or revenge. American Heritage. Similar definitions. (countable) A form of recompense. Wiktionary. Synonyms: retribution. vengeance. Other Word Forms of Payback. Noun. Singular: payback.
