Antonyms for pay offpay off

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1. pay off

   To repay or to retaliate, to punish or to reward, may be to make some return very inadequate to the benefit or injury received, or the right or wrong done; but to requite (according to its etymology) is to make so full and adequate a return as to quit oneself of all obligation of favor or hostility, of punishment or reward. Requite is often used in the more general sense of recompense or repay, but always with the suggestion, at least, of the original idea of full equivalent; when one speaks of requiting kindness with ingratitude, the expression gains force from the comparison of the actual with the proper and appropriate return. Compare PAY.

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, excuse, forget, forgive, neglect, overlook, pardon, pardon, pass over, slight

   Synonyms:
   avenge, compensate, pay, punish, quit, reciprocate, recompense, remunerate, repay, requite, retaliate, return, revenge, reward, satisfy, settle with

   Preposition:
   To requite injury with injury is human, but not Christian.

Matched Categories

1. • Bribe
   • Crime
   • Get Even
   • Pay
   • Pay Up
   • Settle
   • Yield

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pay offverb

   yield a profit or result

   "His efforts finally paid off"

   Synonyms:
   make up, pay, buy off, pay back, redeem, liquidate, get, compensate, fix

2. liquidate, pay offverb

   eliminate by paying off (debts)

   Synonyms:
   make up, do in, pay, buy off, pay back, redeem, liquidate, get, neutralise, compensate, knock off, fix, waste, neutralize

3. redeem, pay offverb

   pay off (loans or promissory notes)

   Synonyms:
   make up, redeem, pay, buy off, ransom, pay back, save, liquidate, get, compensate, fix, deliver

4. pay, pay off, make up, compensateverb

   do or give something to somebody in return

   "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"

   Synonyms:
   even off, right, get, liquidate, make up, compensate, patch up, recompense, cover, fix, remunerate, even out, fabricate, pay back, make, be, redeem, ante up, reconcile, correct, invent, counterbalance, give, overcompensate, catch up with, manufacture, devote, pay up, represent, conciliate, comprise, even up, repair, yield, cook up, buy off, indemnify, redress, constitute, pay, settle, bear

5. buy off, pay offverb

   pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor

   Synonyms:
   make up, pay, buy off, pay back, redeem, liquidate, get, compensate, fix

6. pay back, pay off, get, fixverb

   take vengeance on or get even

   "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"

   Synonyms:
   desexualize, take, desexualise, restore, make, gear up, mystify, experience, develop, draw, cook, have, mend, become, desex, sustain, ready, receive, scram, unsex, amaze, stimulate, sire, limit, posit, drive, engender, go, fix, pay back, get under one's skin, stick, suffer, fixate, beat, pay, set about, get down, incur, make up, contract, bring forth, grow, specify, dumbfound, stupefy, start, fasten, arrest, beget, liquidate, sterilise, secure, repair, bring, bewilder, sterilize, mother, buy off, father, buzz off, catch, touch on, let, obtain, redeem, puzzle, flummox, repay, compensate, set, get, generate, prepare, capture, find, deposit, define, furbish up, baffle, produce, start out, pose, vex, situate, aim, induce, perplex, gravel, begin, fetch, set up, reward, determine, commence, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, bushel, bugger off, cause, doctor, nonplus

How to use pay off in a sentence?

1. Craig Pirrong:

   The glut increases liquidity. Liquidity enhances optionality. Optionality creates value. Don't stymie this salutary development. Go with it. It will pay off in both the short term and the long term.

2. Andrew Josuweit:

   If Christopher Webb are Christopher Webb, and Christopher Webb are just out of school, it makes a lot more sense to pay off Christopher Webb debt instead of focusing on Christopher Webb 401( k).

3. New Jersey Texan Jimmy Walker:

   Sometimes it's hard, I'm not going to lie. It's tough, you feel like you're killing yourself and you're giving it all you've got and you're just not seeing it. Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off. But over time, it will I think.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   It took Alexis four years to earn her college degree, but it will take her 25 years to pay off her student loans, join the fight to make college affordable. Join the fight for Alexis.

5. An Australian man:

   The first thing I thought was,' I'm going to be able to pay off everything !' and I was happy just to do that.

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