payback

2 definitions found

payback - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  payback \payback\ n.
     same as retribution. [informal]
     [PJC]
  
     2. same as requital. [informal]
        [PJC]

payback - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  payback
      n 1: financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the
           initial investment)
      2: 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" [syn: vengeance, retribution,
         payback]