0 an advantage received from something, especially the profit from a financial investment:
The payback for reorganization should be increased productivity.
1 something bad that is done to you because of something bad that you have done previously:
The problems she was experiencing felt like payback for her past mistakes.
2 an action that punishes someone for something bad that the person did to you; revenge:
[ U ] They view the proposed initiative as payback to those senators who have not shown enough Republican loyalty.
3 the activity of giving money that is owed, or of getting back something for money spent:
He'll have a 20-year payback on his investment, and the improvements should last another 20 years after that.
4 the profit received from an investment or the time that it takes to receive the same amount that was invested:
5 an advantage that you get from something:
payback for sth The payback for reorganization should be increased productivity.
6 a situation in which someone will have to suffer for the way that they have behaved in the past:
Individual retirement income by statutory pension paybacks will not be sufficient to maintain their standards of living.
Instantiation of a model as a robot can be a valuable aid in evaluating the costs versus paybacks of adding complications to that model.
There have been charges that state officials often asked for and received paybacks from privatisation deals.
We were able to identify a considerable range of research paybacks.
Payback remained very much of a hypothetical order.
The main constraint is economic; with a payback of 15-19 years, a mangosteen orchard is not an attractive investment.
One constituent of this is the pursuit of" symbolic" goals with a high political" payback", even to the detriment of more" commercial" business objectives.
The payback to the military was even greater.
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