payback
Example Sentences
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Those locations earn back their roughly $1.4 million build costs in about two years on average, an unusually fast payback in the restaurant industry.
If Carroll wondered if he’d ever get payback, it came Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times
Carroll, in Trump’s telling, is the pawn of his Democratic enemies, in it for political payback, fame and cash.
From Washington Post
The other sees Shiv publicly humiliated to an extent that warrants epic payback.
From Salon
A series of European countries soon passed their own versions of the law and Evgenia Kara-Murza believes the treatment of her husband is payback.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
