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 Dave McKay:

   We would consider strategic options to make small acquisitions that could help accelerate growth in the United States and provide a good payback to shareholders in a reasonable period of time.

2. Adam Schiff:

   Clearly, there's an expectation there on the Russian side that they may now have success with the Magnitsky Act, given that the prior meeting and communications dealt with the offer of help, it certainly seems like the Russians were ready for payback.

3. Lynda Buel:

   People see the ability to commit these' smash-and-grab incidents' knowing that there is little consequence, especially if the thefts are kept below the threshold of a felony offense, it's easy, it's fast, and the payback is good.

4. 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.

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.