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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1. Siriya Banchor:

   I have two sets of clothes, two utensils and a little rice. We came with nothing, hoping to earn enough to pay back our loan, we are going back with nothing but at least the suffering will end.

2. Patty Murray:

   It speaks volumes that instead of proposing steps to help students afford college and pay back their student loans, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to gut hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid and perpetuate our nation's student debt crisis.

3. Siobhan Morden:

   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.

4. Litsa Zarkada:

   It's like we've been born again and finally feel some hope, we were thrown into the street just before we could take our pension. We have been through so much. The new government faces an immediate cash shortage, with a dwindling primary surplus, upcoming loan repayments, and limits on the money it can raise using treasury bill auctions. Megan Greene, chief economist at Manulife Asset Management, said the government will be unable to afford to run its day-to-day operations and pay back debt that falls due in March in the absence of additional cash from international creditors.

5. Merrick Garland:

   I come from a family where my grandparents fled anti-Semitism and persecution, i feel an obligation to the country to pay back for protecting us.