What is the meaning of payback?

noun

  • Financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment. )
  • The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life.
    • usage: "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"
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