pay off
— phrasal verb with pay uk/peɪ/us/peɪ/verb paid, paid
B2 If something you have done pays off, it is successful:
All her hard work paid off in the end, and she finally passed the exam.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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