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動詞

pay back (third-person singular simple present pays back, present participle paying back, simple past and past participle paid back)

1. (transitive) To pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.
   • 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:

     Douglas: Roy, give me £20.
     Roy: What?
     Douglas: Give me £20. I'll pay you back.

   He paid her back with interest, giving her ₿3 and an NFT for the $6 he'd borrowed last week.

   He paid back all the money he owed her, with interest.

2. (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

   He paid her back with interest, avenging his father's murder with nine degrees of reprisal.

派生語

• payback (noun)

関連する語

アナグラム

• back pay, backpay

語源

Deverbal from pay back.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpeɪbæk/

名詞

payback (usually uncountable, plural paybacks)

1. (uncountable) An act of revenge.

   They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback.

2. (countable) A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
   • 2009 February 2, Carol Goar, “You can help cleaners earn decent wages”, in Toronto Star‎:

     They identify three tangible paybacks.

3. A return on investment.
4. (rare) A refund; reimbursement.

同意語

• (repayment): repayment
• (revenge): getback, revenge, repayment, reprisal, just deserts, poetic justice

派生語

動詞

payback

1. Misspelling of pay back.

参考

• have it coming
• pay back

アナグラム

• back pay, backpay