Synonyms for pay off
pay off

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. pay off

   Synonyms:
   pay and discharge (as hired men)

2. pay off

   Synonyms:
   punish, pay, take revenge upon, retort upon

3. pay off

   Synonyms:
   (Naut.) fall off, fall to leeward

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1. The US:

   This is a step that rationalizes what was essentially an irrational arrangement that we inherited, it was irrational because it created unnecessary and elevated risk to The US forces as they moved in and out of the country on a rotational basis, and it gave us less pay-off for incurring that risk because it disrupted their efficacy and consistency of their work with partners.

2. Nic Fink:

   It’s really fun to see it pay off for Andrew and I.

3. Xiao Meili:

   I don't think I'll have a big chance of winning. Going to court is a very exhausting process and it might not pay off in the end, but I have to do it, so at least I won't have regrets for not trying.

4. Emily Benfer:

   Families are panicked, they don't know where their children are going to sleep come Monday night. They don't know how they'll cover the past-due rent that they're not likely to pay off in their lifetime. Many of them have applied for rental assistance, but with only $ 3 billion of the $ 46 billion paid out, they're on hold. And so they're panicked, they're desperate, they're in dire straits.

5. Charles Coxe:

   The jury is still out on whether these investments in talent in digital will pay off, right now, the audience engagement doesn’t justify it, but we’re still in the frontier thinking stage. Once more people settle into consuming content online, those viewership numbers will only go up, and audiences will naturally be drawn to the names they already know from TV.