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Definition of payoff in US English: payoffnounˈpāˌôfˈpeɪˌɔfˈpeɪˌɔf informal 1A payment made to someone, especially as a bribe or reward, or on leaving a job. widespread rumors of payoffs and kickbacks in the party Example sentencesExamples - The result is that contracts go to those who guarantee pay-offs to the panel members or their ‘owners’.
- Board members come and go with huge pay-offs and bonuses no matter how successful.
- No one doubts, however, that it does maintain covert agents and does use monetary pay-offs to gain influence in the country.
- She told delegates times were tough for manufacturing firms and the Government was just as angry as unions about executives receiving huge pay-offs.
- But, in the absence of unlikely impeachment procedures, a substantial pay-off appears to be the only real option open to the Government to encourage the judge to resign.
- His severance pay-off is believed to have been as much as £83,000.
- The idea that he resigned and gets this huge pay-off is disgraceful.
- Two opposition politicians confessed to receiving $10,000 pay-offs under the previous Estrada Government.
- Are the pay-offs and bribes more important than these boys or putting an end to such nonsense?
- The pay-offs, remember, come on top of transfer fees and the big wages paid to them.
- However, they are still refusing to make the final redundancy payments, pay-offs which range from £16,000 to £28,000 each.
- When all the facts came out, though, those contributions were revealed as little more than window dressing, an early ante up for the real bribery and pay-offs.
- If any of these executives are fired, they will expect a big pay-off; but not all pay-offs bring peace of mind.
- He announced his intentions over three months ago and said the pay-off had not influenced his decision.
- As executives are continuing to work at the group, the issue of pay-offs had not arisen last night.
- The man spoke with the radiant serenity of those who have, despite the alternative lures and pay-offs, chosen to be a free subject.
- Still, as paltry as the pay-offs were, the scandal exposed the hollowness of the ruling party's nationalist rhetoric.
- We're expecting him back some time next week and all this talk of pay-offs and what have you is incorrect.
- It is reported that this reduction, with all the pay-offs and pensions will cost around USD 1.1 billion.
- Rose is facing an angry backlash from key investors over the £10m pay-offs to departing executives.
Synonyms payment, payout, reward, recompense, consideration - 1.1 The return on investment or on a bet.
Example sentencesExamples - But he adds that the potential payoff is worth the risk.
- The best entrepreneurs I know are not concerned about getting credit for their ideas - the financial pay-off is reward enough.
- The Democrats' strategy also holds a potential pay-off for another reason.
- Seeing this movie is indeed a risk, but one with extraordinary pay-offs.
- The latter approach is more difficult, but offers a much bigger pay-off at the end.
- So the question becomes: is the payoff worth the effort?
- Be advised that larger pools do not automatically result in larger individual pay-offs.
- The more sets a player completes, the higher the potential pay-off if they win.
- We knew, in other words, that self archiving was a small investment for authors with a large pay-off.
- The stake for their gamble is a high one, perhaps 100 million, and while the pay-off could be massive, the outcome could also be disaster not only for the politicians but for the country they lead.
- The new operations may have had an immediate pay-off.
- You should have improved net return by direct marketing your poultry and also reduce your financial risk with quicker pay-off of the small up front investment required.
- Between them, their share options and pension pots are expected to amount to pay-offs of more than £6m each.
- However, the bosses will prosper with fat cash pay-offs and sweet share deals that will see them comfortably well-off well into dotage.
- Both are expected to receive six-figure pay-offs.
- Thus, the pay-off on investment was high where there was an expanding labour force with which more capital could be put to work.
- Increasing grant support will shift efforts toward current issues, particularly those that have immediate economic pay-offs.
- However, if your firm's finances are relatively healthy, getting a bigger pay-off is indeed an option worth exploring.
- The real payoff in present terms is the spinoff technology that will be used for future lunar and interplanetary missions.
- Organizations are assumed to choose a policy that their cognitive representation suggests maximizes their payoff.
Synonyms return, return on investment, yield, payback, reward, profit, gain, income, revenue, interest, dividend, percentage - 1.2 A final outcome; a conclusion.
it gave them the idea for the payoff of last night's episode Example sentencesExamples - Nonetheless, the software delivers the expected payoff.
- Working towards daily bliss, a little at a time, can have big pay-offs in terms of lasting beauty that stems from deep within you.
- But the biggest pay-off of her improved chemistry grade was her mother getting off her back.
- As long as he increases his heart-rate and keeps it that way for 30 to 40 minutes, the pay-off over time will be enormous.
- Since then, the group has undertaken projects with big pay-offs for patients, nurses, even the public.
- The pay-off comes when the table is finally returned to the antique dealer who gets what might be called her just dessert.
- Research need not always have a direct pay-off in terms of influencing policy or practice directly.
- Which is a shame, because the final pay-off is worthwhile, and despite all the frustrations I did enjoy it.
- Did learning the moves have any big pay-off for him in real-life, to help him seduce his own wife?
- Playing a game boils down to performing an action: this action is based on a strategy that is chosen after the players consider the pay-offs.
- So what happens in the final scene isn't really a pay-off.
- What will be broadcast this weekend is one of his favourites from a year or two back, with an updated introduction and a final pay-off.
- These films also maintain a presence of God, fate, and karmic pay-offs for the hero's eventual victory.
- He built the tenderness up slowly and carefully, until its consummation delivered a powerful emotional payoff.
- Splitting water to produce molecular oxygen and molecular hydrogen has a big potential payoff.
Synonyms outcome, denouement, culmination, conclusion, development, result, consequence, out-turn, end result, upshot, aftermath
Definition of payoff in US English: payoffnounˈpāˌôfˈpeɪˌɔf informal 1A payment made to someone, especially as a bribe or reward, or on leaving a job. widespread rumors of payoffs and kickbacks in the party Example sentencesExamples - The result is that contracts go to those who guarantee pay-offs to the panel members or their ‘owners’.
- Board members come and go with huge pay-offs and bonuses no matter how successful.
- No one doubts, however, that it does maintain covert agents and does use monetary pay-offs to gain influence in the country.
- She told delegates times were tough for manufacturing firms and the Government was just as angry as unions about executives receiving huge pay-offs.
- But, in the absence of unlikely impeachment procedures, a substantial pay-off appears to be the only real option open to the Government to encourage the judge to resign.
- His severance pay-off is believed to have been as much as £83,000.
- The idea that he resigned and gets this huge pay-off is disgraceful.
- Two opposition politicians confessed to receiving $10,000 pay-offs under the previous Estrada Government.
- Are the pay-offs and bribes more important than these boys or putting an end to such nonsense?
- The pay-offs, remember, come on top of transfer fees and the big wages paid to them.
- However, they are still refusing to make the final redundancy payments, pay-offs which range from £16,000 to £28,000 each.
- When all the facts came out, though, those contributions were revealed as little more than window dressing, an early ante up for the real bribery and pay-offs.
- If any of these executives are fired, they will expect a big pay-off; but not all pay-offs bring peace of mind.
- He announced his intentions over three months ago and said the pay-off had not influenced his decision.
- As executives are continuing to work at the group, the issue of pay-offs had not arisen last night.
- The man spoke with the radiant serenity of those who have, despite the alternative lures and pay-offs, chosen to be a free subject.
- Still, as paltry as the pay-offs were, the scandal exposed the hollowness of the ruling party's nationalist rhetoric.
- We're expecting him back some time next week and all this talk of pay-offs and what have you is incorrect.
- It is reported that this reduction, with all the pay-offs and pensions will cost around USD 1.1 billion.
- Rose is facing an angry backlash from key investors over the £10m pay-offs to departing executives.
Synonyms payment, payout, reward, recompense, consideration - 1.1 The return on investment or on a bet.
Example sentencesExamples - But he adds that the potential payoff is worth the risk.
- The best entrepreneurs I know are not concerned about getting credit for their ideas - the financial pay-off is reward enough.
- The Democrats' strategy also holds a potential pay-off for another reason.
- Seeing this movie is indeed a risk, but one with extraordinary pay-offs.
- The latter approach is more difficult, but offers a much bigger pay-off at the end.
- So the question becomes: is the payoff worth the effort?
- Be advised that larger pools do not automatically result in larger individual pay-offs.
- The more sets a player completes, the higher the potential pay-off if they win.
- We knew, in other words, that self archiving was a small investment for authors with a large pay-off.
- The stake for their gamble is a high one, perhaps 100 million, and while the pay-off could be massive, the outcome could also be disaster not only for the politicians but for the country they lead.
- The new operations may have had an immediate pay-off.
- You should have improved net return by direct marketing your poultry and also reduce your financial risk with quicker pay-off of the small up front investment required.
- Between them, their share options and pension pots are expected to amount to pay-offs of more than £6m each.
- However, the bosses will prosper with fat cash pay-offs and sweet share deals that will see them comfortably well-off well into dotage.
- Both are expected to receive six-figure pay-offs.
- Thus, the pay-off on investment was high where there was an expanding labour force with which more capital could be put to work.
- Increasing grant support will shift efforts toward current issues, particularly those that have immediate economic pay-offs.
- However, if your firm's finances are relatively healthy, getting a bigger pay-off is indeed an option worth exploring.
- The real payoff in present terms is the spinoff technology that will be used for future lunar and interplanetary missions.
- Organizations are assumed to choose a policy that their cognitive representation suggests maximizes their payoff.
Synonyms return, return on investment, yield, payback, reward, profit, gain, income, revenue, interest, dividend, percentage - 1.2 A final outcome; a conclusion.
it gave them the idea for the payoff of last night's episode Example sentencesExamples - Nonetheless, the software delivers the expected payoff.
- Working towards daily bliss, a little at a time, can have big pay-offs in terms of lasting beauty that stems from deep within you.
- But the biggest pay-off of her improved chemistry grade was her mother getting off her back.
- As long as he increases his heart-rate and keeps it that way for 30 to 40 minutes, the pay-off over time will be enormous.
- Since then, the group has undertaken projects with big pay-offs for patients, nurses, even the public.
- The pay-off comes when the table is finally returned to the antique dealer who gets what might be called her just dessert.
- Research need not always have a direct pay-off in terms of influencing policy or practice directly.
- Which is a shame, because the final pay-off is worthwhile, and despite all the frustrations I did enjoy it.
- Did learning the moves have any big pay-off for him in real-life, to help him seduce his own wife?
- Playing a game boils down to performing an action: this action is based on a strategy that is chosen after the players consider the pay-offs.
- So what happens in the final scene isn't really a pay-off.
- What will be broadcast this weekend is one of his favourites from a year or two back, with an updated introduction and a final pay-off.
- These films also maintain a presence of God, fate, and karmic pay-offs for the hero's eventual victory.
- He built the tenderness up slowly and carefully, until its consummation delivered a powerful emotional payoff.
- Splitting water to produce molecular oxygen and molecular hydrogen has a big potential payoff.
Synonyms outcome, denouement, culmination, conclusion, development, result, consequence, out-turn, end result, upshot, aftermath
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