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payoff

noun

Meaning

  1. A payment.
  2. A reward.
  3. A bribe.
  4. A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction.
  5. Short for payoff pitch.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

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Related words

wages(English)proceeds(English)bribe(English)reward(English)yield(English)issue(English)return(English)take(English)equilibrium(English)defection(English)wager(English)entrant(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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