Synonyms for pay back
pay back

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1. reward, repay, pay backverb

   act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions

   Synonyms:
   get, reinforce, riposte, honor, pay off, refund, retort, reward, fix, honour, return, requite, come back, repay, rejoin, give back

2. 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, 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, pay off, bushel, bugger off, cause, doctor, nonplus

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1. pay back

   Synonyms:
   reimburse, refund, restore, repay, requite, indemnify, retaliate

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How to use pay back in a sentence?

1. The Pope:

   We must achieve a free sort of election campaign, not financed, because many interests come into play in financing of an election campaign and then they ask you to pay back. So, the election campaign should be independent from anyone who may finance it.

2. Ivan Glasenberg:

   We don't want to oversupply and cannibalise our own business, if we do generate cash and we don't find better ways to deploy it, we are owner-managers and we are happy to pay back some money to ourselves.

3. Jhoon Rhee:

   I fought the Korean war side by side American soldiers who came to defend my motherland, that touched me. I wanted to pay back with what I do best : Tae Kwon Do.

4. The IEA:

   The resulting downward price pressure would raise the risk of social instability or financial difficulties if producers found it difficult to pay back debt. Continued price declines would for some countries and companies make an already difficult situation even worse.

5. Siobhan Morden:

   No one pays attention to net reserves, which are declining every day, you have to pay back the China swap line (in 12 months time). It is a temporary fix to end the term, but it places a huge burden on the incoming administration to pay back the swap line and reverse the balance of payments deficit.