pay off

Speech parts

1. pay off - Noun

2. pay off - Verb

Meaning

eliminate by paying off (debts)

pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor

do or give something to somebody in return

take vengeance on or get even

pay off (loans or promissory notes)

yield a profit or result

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Examples

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. Jonas Salk

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off. Warren Zevon

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off. Vanna White

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. Jeffrey D. Sachs

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage. Suze Orman

While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off. Paul Keating

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