also pay-off
(payoffs)
1.
The payoff from an action is the advantage or benefit that you get from it.
If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous...
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2.
A payoff is a payment which is made to someone, often secretly or illegally, so that they will not cause trouble.
Soldiers in both countries supplement their incomes with payoffs from drugs exporters.
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A payoff is a large payment made to someone by their employer when the person has been forced to leave their job.
The ousted chairman received a ?1.5 million payoff from the loss-making oil company.
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