payback
1. financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
• Hypernyms:
return, issue, take, takings, proceeds,
yield, payoff
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
• Derivationally related forms:
pay back
• Hypernyms:
retaliation, revenge
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