Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
payback \payback\ n.
same as {retribution}. [informal]
[PJC]
2. same as {requital}. [informal]
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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}]
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