payback
pronunciation
How to pronounce payback in British English:
UK [ˈpeɪbæk]
How to pronounce payback in American English:
US [ ˈpeɪbæk]
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- Noun:
- financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
- the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
Word Origin
- payback (n.)
- also pay-back, 1946, "net return on profits from an investment," from pay (v.) + back (adj.). Meaning "revenge" is attested from 1957.
Example
- 1. How can businesses maximise the payback from diversity initiatives ?
- 2. In other words , fiction is payback for those who have wronged you .
- 3. But the payback is worth it .
- 4. Now it is payback time .
- 5. I asked david thomson , the project officer for viking energy , about the veracity of these payback calculations .