0 an advantage received from something, especially the profit from a financial investment -- 回报,收益
The payback for reorganization should be increased productivity. 重组的益处应该是生产率得到了提高。
1 something bad that is done to you because of something bad that you have done previously -- (因为过去的错失而不得不经受目前的遭遇)偿还
The problems she was experiencing felt like payback for her past mistakes. 她正在经历的问题让人觉得是对过去失误的偿还。
Crops were also sometimes used for borrowing and payback at the same rate of interest as credit in cash.
Since this includes an array of homes in different regions and with different baseline insulation levels, the payback period clearly varies substantially across homes.
The payback period is 2 years and 7 months.
The capital costs have a negative impact on the payback time, hence only the lower power fans are economically viable.
Obviously, the first two choices are impossible, since the payback time can not be negative, and lifetime of the system is 10 years only.
In order to design the most cost-effective waste heat recovery system, payback time has to be minimized.
The simplest of these, the payback method, can be used to estimate the location most likely to return the original investment quickest.
The payback to the military was even greater.