pay-off

Verbs

  • (v) yield a profit or result
    • His efforts finally paid off
  • (v) eliminate by paying off (debts) liquidate,
  • (v) pay off (loans or promissory notes) redeem,
  • (v) do or give something to somebody in return
    • Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
    make up, compensate, pay,
  • (v) pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor buy off,
  • (v) take vengeance on or get even
    • We'll get them!
    • That'll fix him good!
    • This time I got him
    pay back, fix, get,

Synonyms

liquidate redeem make up compensate pay buy off pay back fix get

See also

pay back fix get

Words of close approximity

pay out