payback

Meanings

Plural: paybacks

Noun

• financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
• the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; --Romans 12:19; --James Garfield
• An act of revenge.
• A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
• A return on investment.
• A refund; reimbursement.

Verb

• Misspelling of pay back.

Synonyms

getback, just deserts, poetic justice, repayment, reprisal, retribution, revenge, vengeance

Related Words

have it coming, pay back