Definitions for payoff

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payoff pay·off

Spelling: [pey-awf, -of]

IPA: /ˈpeɪˌɔf, -ˌɒf/

Payoff is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in payoff (affopy).

Definitions for payoff

noun

1. the payment of a salary, debt, wager, etc.
2. the time at which such payment is made.
3. the consequence, outcome, or final sequence in a series of events, actions, or circumstances:
4. Informal. the climax of something, especially a story or joke.
5. a settlement or reckoning, as in retribution or reward.
6. Informal. a bribe.

adjective

1. yielding results, especially rewarding or decisive results:

Origin of payoff

First recorded in 1910-15; noun, adj. use of verb phrase pay off

Examples for payoff

Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.

The sentence is dictated by statute and therefore the defendant gets next to no payoff for his guilty plea.

He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”

Suppose the Elsinore had persisted in her refusal to payoff?

And the duke went away, promising to payoff the gentlemen for their interruption.

But, they more than payoff as a chance to see classic, clever sketch comedy in its earliest days of television.

De Quille had not missed the opportunity of his comrade's absence to payoff some old scores.

And frequently no one suspects the direction the payoff finally takes.

If we enter with science and respect, the payoff will last generations.

After weeks of neglecting his tip sheet to study catatonia, he felt close to the payoff.