Found 2 hits - Term: payback, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
payback \payback\ n.
same as retribution. informal
pjc
2. same as requital. informal
pjc
see also:
retribution requital
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
payback
n 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; "vengeance is mine; i will repay, saith the
lord"--romans 12:19; "for vengeance i would do nothing.
this nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--james
garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed
him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" syn: vengeance,
retribution
see also:
vengeance retribution
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