payback
pay bak
- n financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
- n the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19
- Searchinger's study concluded that overall, corn ethanol has a payback period of about 167 years because of the deforestation it triggers.
- I think that the payback-factor predictions for this program have been greatly exaggerated.
- But the Evangelicals who say AIDS is payback for homosexualsyou don't see liberals saying Hurricane Ike is payback for the Bush family living in Texas.