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  • 11pay back — /ˌpeɪ bæk/ verb to give money back to someone ● Banks are warning students not to take out loans which they cannot pay back. ● I lent him £50 and he promised to pay me back in a month. ● He has never paid me back the money he borrowed …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 12pay back — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. discharge a responsibility, even up, compound for; see return 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To exact revenge for or from: avenge, pay off, redress, repay, requite, vindicate. Informal: fix. Archaic: wreak. Idioms: even …

    English dictionary for students

  • 13pay·back — /ˈpeıˌbæk/ noun, pl backs 1 [noncount] : punishment for something that was done in the past This is payback [=this is my revenge] for all the pain you ve caused me. They beat our team last year, so we ve got to beat them this year as payback. You …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 14pay back — phr verb Pay back is used with these nouns as the object: ↑debt, ↑loan, ↑money …

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  • 15pay back — repay, return money that was borrowed    He said he would pay back every cent he borrowed from us …

    English idioms

  • 16Pay-back-Karte — Pay back Kar|te, Pay|back|kar|te, die: Kundenkarte, durch deren Einsatz der Inhaber od. die Inhaberin beim Kauf eines Produktes od. einer Dienstleistung Bonuspunkte sammelt …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 17pay back value — atsiperkamoji vertė statusas Aprobuotas sritis buhalterinė apskaita ir finansinė atskaitomybė apibrėžtis 1. Didesnė iš šių verčių: turto grynoji realizavimo vertė arba jo naudojimo vertė. 2. Didesnė iš šių verčių: tikroji turto vertė atėmus… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 18pay back — Synonyms and related words: alternate, atone, bandy, be quits with, change, commute, compensate, cooperate, counterchange, cover, do penance, exchange, expiate, fill up, get back at, get even with, get satisfaction, give and take, give… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 19pay back — 1) she has sworn to pay him back for his philandering Syn: get one s revenge on, be revenged on, avenge oneself on, get back at, get even with, settle accounts with, exact retribution on 2) they eventually paid back the money Syn: repay, pay off …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 20pay back — verb /peɪ bæk/ a) to repay He paid her back with interest. b) to exact revenge He paid back all the money he owed her …

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