Synonyms for payback
ˈpeɪˌbækpay·back

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1. paybacknoun

   Synonyms:
   just deserts, poetic justice

2. paybacknoun

   An act of revenge.

   They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback.

   Synonyms:
   just deserts, poetic justice

3. paybacknoun

   A form of recompense.

   Synonyms:
   poetic justice, just deserts

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1. paybacknoun

   financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)

   Synonyms:
   vengeance, retribution

2. vengeance, retribution, paybacknoun

   the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

   "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"

   Synonyms:
   vengeance, requital, retribution

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1. List of paraphrases for "payback":

   revenge, vengeance, salvage, recovery, recapture

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1. Chief Executive Dominic Taylor:

   It is harder to make a return, payback is delayed... therefore we believe our businesses in parking and online payment are better placed in the hand of another investor of that type that is able to take them forward.

2. Kanye West:

   This boy thought he could get away with performing this sketch for the team that wrote this for him This is not harassment This is payback.

3. United States:

   Given an unprecedented decline in driving, customers will receive a Shelter-in-Place Payback.

4. Kyle Larson:

   I saw Kevin get into Chase, get his payback I ’m guessing. But, man, Chase’s team did such a good job fighting through that, i think any other race in the season, you ’ll probably give up and just patch it together the best you can, and the driver also is probably going to limp it around and accept that they are n’t going to make the next round.

5. Joe Kaufman:

   The emails just point out what so many of us believed, that the process was rigged for Hillary Clinton, it looks a little like Wasserman Shultz is getting a payback for her helping get Hillary Clinton elected. … My campaign believes that people who wanted to vote for Wasserman Shultz just should n’t vote at all because a vote for her is a vote for the rigged process.