单词	payback
释义	payback /ˈpeɪbak / noun 1 [mass noun] Profit from an investment equal to the initial outlay: a long time lag between investment and payback [count noun]: we aim to achieve a payback of the cost within eight years... Businesses often look for a two to three-year payback on capital investments. She declines to discuss return on investment, but insists payback will come. That was payback for the investment, but playing in Scotland, those costs were unsustainable. 2An act of revenge or retaliation: the drive-by shootings are mainly paybacks... No, I think the analysis of this is kind of a little bit of a payback for the exaggerated notion of a lame duck. But the payback will have been so long coming, and so uncertain, that it can't have been much of a motivation. I don't think you can argue that they were consciously thinking of it as a payback for what Australia did. Rhymes playback
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