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payback
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As a noun, payback means an act of revenge.
Meanings of payback
6 meaningsnoun
An act of revenge.
“They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback.”
A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
A return on investment.
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
“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”
Similar: vengeance, retribution
Older and rare meanings (1)
rareA refund; reimbursement.
verb
Misspelling of pay back.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).