Definitions for paybacks

paybacks pay·back

Spelling: [pey-bak]
IPA: /ˈpeɪˌbæk/

Paybacks is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in paybacks (aabckpsy).

Definitions for paybacks

noun

  1. the period of time required to recoup a capital investment.
  2. the return on an investment:
  3. the act or fact of paying back; repayment.
  4. something done in retaliation:

Origin of paybacks

First recorded in 1955-60; noun use of verb phrase pay back

Examples for paybacks

The payback was swift and the re-alignment was total: a Solid South, but this time, Republican.

If a Republican wins the presidency in 2016, the payback from Democrats will be vicious.

It was a bit of payback by Ben Jones, who played Cooter in The Dukes of Hazzard and lost a House race to Gingrich.

It will not be easy to persuade militias to disband with payback sentiments like those.

Was it payback for uprooting the lives of his wife and three children for 18 months?

Now his family says the Los Angeles man is being brutalized in a Guangdong prison as payback.

payback against those accused of practicing sorcery is a deep-set custom in some parts of the ethnically diverse nation.

The payback scene at the end of the new season was really hard to watch.

Drive 20,000 miles per year at $4.00 a gallon, and the payback period is shorter—2.5 years.

And they will no doubt want their payback once the oil starts pumping again.

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