PAYBACK
Dictionary entry overview: What does payback mean?
• PAYBACK (noun)
The noun PAYBACK has 2 senses:
1. financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
2. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
Familiarity information: PAYBACK used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PAYBACK (noun)
Meaning:
Financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("payback" is a kind of...):
issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield (the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property)
Meaning:
The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
vengeance; payback; retribution
Context examples:
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 / the swiftness of divine retribution
Hypernyms ("payback" is a kind of...):
retaliation; revenge (action taken in return for an injury or offense)
