PAYING BACK
Dictionary entry overview: What does paying back mean?
• PAYING BACK (noun)
The noun PAYING BACK has 1 sense:
1. a reciprocal group action
Familiarity information: PAYING BACK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PAYING BACK (noun)
Meaning:
A reciprocal group action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
getting even; paying back; return
Context example:
in return we gave them as good as we got
Hypernyms ("paying back" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paying back"):
requital (an act of requiting; returning in kind)
retaliation; revenge (action taken in return for an injury or offense)
reciprocation (the act of making or doing something in return)
tit for tat (an equivalent given in return)
