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payback
Overview of noun payback
The noun payback has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. payback -- (financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment))
2. vengeance, retribution, payback -- (the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun payback
2 senses of payback
Sense 1
payback
=> return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
=> income
=> financial gain
=> gain
=> sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money
=> assets
=> possession
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
vengeance, retribution, payback
=> retaliation, revenge
=> return, paying back, getting even
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun payback
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun payback
2 senses of payback
Sense 1
payback
=> return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
Sense 2
vengeance, retribution, payback
=> retaliation, revenge
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Derived Forms of noun payback
1 of 2 senses of payback
Sense 2
vengeance, retribution, payback
RELATED TO>(verb) pay back#2
=> pay back, pay off, get, fix
Domain of noun payback
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Familiarity of noun payback
payback used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun payback
2 senses of payback
Sense 1
payback
> return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
=> economic rent, rent
=> payback
Sense 2
vengeance, retribution, payback
> retaliation, revenge
=> vengeance, retribution, payback
=> reprisal
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2 senses of payback
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Grep of noun payback
payback
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