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. 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.

2. Dan Kelly:

   The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.

3. Ted Rossman:

   Even if spending may be tailing off a bit, high inflation and higher interest rates are making balances harder to pay off, more people are putting necessities on credit cards and financing these expenses over time.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   It took Alexis four years to earn her college degree, but it will take her 25 years to pay off her student loans, join the fight to make college affordable. Join the fight for Alexis.

5. Olivia Ray:

   As aphysician, I know that myinitial investment [toward medical school] will eventually pay off, but it has totally helped that I have worked so very hard to makemoney of my own, reselling online is something a ton of college students, and even medical students, couldstart.