Payoff

Definitions: Payoff

Payoff

Noun

1. The final payment of a debt.

2. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.

3. The income arising from land or other property; "the average return was about 5%".

4. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "payoff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Payoff

Crosswords: Payoff

For the payoff ("The Scorpion Lament"; performing artist: The Roches)

Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now. (references; author: unknown)

The Big Payoff (1951)

Paddled Payoff (1993)

Payoff (1991)

Sheila's Payoff (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Payoff Artillery-Wwii: The Wide Ranging Combat of the Battalion That Fought Under Five Armies and Eight Divisions in the European Theatre (reference)

• The Big Payoff (reference)

• The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution (reference)

• The Proteomics Payoff [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Transfer of Training: Action-Packed Strategies to Ensure High Payoff from Training Investments (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Payoff (reference)

• Payoff in the Pacific (reference)

• World War II, Vol. 11 - Attack in the Pacific/ Vol. 12 - Payoff In the Pacific (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Big Payoff (reference)

• N.B.L. Hardwork's Payoff, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Payoff at Pursglove Mine, Scotts Run, West Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Taiwan

Although attitudes are slowly changing, most Taiwan firms will only pay a higher price for a product if they see an immediate payoff in reduced costs. (references)

Australia

They take time to make purchasing decisions, weighing them carefully against their perceived payoff to increase bottom line profits. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

Powerful political or business interests appeared to enjoy virtual immunity from prosecution; some politically sensitive cases were settled with a payoff and thus never were heard. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "payoff": payoff reel. Additional references.

Albanian

pagim i rrogave, kulm (acme, apex, bloom, climax, crescendo, crisis, crown, culmination, dead, extremity, flower, heat, height, heyday, meridian, nab, peak, pink, pinnacle, prime, summit, superlative, tiptop, top, vertex, zenith), fitim (benefit, earnings, gain, gainings, income, makings, percentage, profit, return, salary, spoil, victory, wages), ditë e rrogave. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نتيجة حاسمة, ‏نتيجة (conclusion, consequence, echo, effect, emanation, end, event, fruit, offshoot, offspring, outcome, precipitate, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, repercussion, result, score, sequel, termination, upshot, work), ‏عامل حاسم, ‏أصبح ساري المفعول (come into force), ‏ربح (account, bonus, draw, earning, gain, in pocket, increase, increment, jackpot, lucre, make, pay, pelf, percentage, pocket, profit, prosperity, revenue, win), ‏دفع الرواتب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рушвет (boodle, bribe, douceur, graft, kickback, oil, payola, swag, sweetener, vail), развръзка (denouement, discovery, resolution), разплата, финал (final, finale, goal, home), възнаграждение (compensation, consideration, emolument, guerdon, pay, payment, premium, remuneration, return, reward, wage), възмездие (comeuppance, judgement, judgment, nemesis, pay, payment, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, wage), отплата (meed, nemesis, quittance, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retaliation, retort, return, reward, wage), награда (award, hay, hire, meed, payment, premium, prize, requital, reward), подкуп (boodle, bribe, drop, fix, graft, grease, hush money, oil, palm grease, palm oil, payola, refresher, subornation, sugarplum, sweetener, vail). (various references)

Chinese 

发薪. (various references)

Czech

výplata (pay, payment, salary, wage packet), splacení dluhu, odmìna (award, fee, gratuity, guerdon, meed, premium, prize, recompense, remuneration, repayment, return, reward, variant). (various references)

Farsi 

پرداخت کردن(تمام دیون), پرداخت (Disburse, Disbursement, Expenditure, Glaze, Outlay, Pay, Payment, Polish, Remitment, Remittance, Rendition, Settlement), منفعت (Benefit, Gain, Profit), نتیجه نهاءی , تسویه کردن (Compromise, Defray, Liquidate), تادیه کردن , جزای کیفر. (various references)

French

profit, pot-de-vin, paiement (payment), remboursement (payback, payment), résultat final, récompense (payment), règlement (payment), conséquence, comble (packed), bouquet. (various references)

German

Abrechnung (accounting, balancing, cashing up, deduction, invoice, revenge, statement). (various references)

Greek 

πληρωμή (defrayment, outgo, pay, pay off, payment). (various references)

Hebrew 

תוצא�" סופית. (various references)

Hungarian

végeredmény (consequence, issue, pay-off, upshot), leszámolás (pay off, pay-off, reckoning, showdown), győzelem (pay-off, smashing victory, triumph, victory, win, winning). (various references)

Indonesian

pembayaran gaji. (various references)

Italian

saldo (amount outstanding, balance, fast, firm, payment, settlement, steady, sturdy, tight), ricompensa (award, compensation, consideration, meed, repayment, requital, retribution, reward), finale (conclusion, end, end-, ending, eventual, final, finale, finals, finish, last, terminal, ultimate). (various references)

Korean 

급료 지불. (various references)

Pig Latin

ayoffpay

Russian 

вручение взятки, время выплаты, выплата жалования. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podmirenje, osveta (retaliation, revenge, vengeance), obračun (clash, liquidation, statement), mito (bribe, hush money, ice, kickback), isplata (allowance, disbursement, payment, payout, quittance). (various references)

Spanish

pago (acquittal, acquittance, area, country, defrayal, defrayment, deliverance, discharge, dividend, divvy, do I pay, estate, f, fee, indemnification, installment, instalment, named locality, named place, pay out, paying, payment, price, property, region, repayment, settlement, settling, village, wage, zone), resultado final (bottom line, final result, upshot), rentabilidad (profit earning capacity, profitability, profitableness, profit-earning capacity), recompensa (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, compensation, gratification, guerdon, payment, prize, recompense, reward, treat), factor decisivo, desenlace (denouement, end, ending, outcome, solution), día de paga (payday). (various references)

Swedish

vedergällning (reprisal, requital, retribution, reward), utbetalning (consignation, disbursement, payment), förtjänst (credit, desert, deserts, earnings, emolument, gain, gainings, merit, profit, taking, win), avräkning (clearing, clearing-off, closing out, discount, settlement), avlöningsdag (pay day, payday). (various references)

Turkish

zirve (acme, apex, apogee, cap, climax, crown, culmination, cusp, head, height, high, high tide, meridian, peak, Pike, pink, pinnacle, summit, top, vertex, zenith), sonuç (aftermath, close, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, decision, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, joy, outcome, produce, product, result, resultant, sequel, show, success, sum, upshot), rüşvet (backhander, boodle, bribe, bribery, corruption, douceur, graft, inducement, kickback, palm grease, palm oil, payola, pie, sop), karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterpart, counterweigh, equivalent, offset, payment, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, quittance, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, repayment, reply, requital, response, return, reward, riposte, wages), intikam (nemesis, retribution, revenge, vengeance, vindication), hesaplaşma (liquidation, reckoning, revenge, settlement, settling, settling accounts with), ödeme (atonement, clearance, conciliation, disbursement, discharge, inpayment, pay, payment, redemption, redress, remuneration, rendering, repayment, satisfaction, settlement). (various references)

Ukranian 

розплата (forfeit, pay off, reckoning, wages), виплата (disbursement, pay off, payout), нагорода (award, bacon, distinction, guerdon, meed, pay off, premium, price, prize, reward, testimonial, tribute). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "payoff": payoffs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Payoff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Makoff, Payo, Peroff, Pitoeff. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ofay, yaff.

-3 letters: aff, fay, fop, foy, oaf, off, pay, pya, yap.

-4 letters: ay, fa, of, op, oy, pa, ya, yo.

+1 letter: payoffs, playoff.

+2 letters: playoffs.

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