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Pay off   /peɪ ɔf/   Listen
Pay off

verb
1.
Yield a profit or result.
2.
Eliminate by paying off (debts).  Synonym: liquidate.
3.
Pay off (loans or promissory notes).  Synonym: redeem.
4.
Do or give something to somebody in return.  Synonyms: compensate, make up, pay.
5.
Pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor.  Synonym: buy off.
6.
Take vengeance on or get even.  Synonyms: fix, get, pay back.  "That'll fix him good!" , "This time I got him"





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"Pay off" Quotes from Famous Books



... when, having saved enough to buy the house, he desired to add three rooms and a porch, and so make it large enough for them to live in. A few years were still to run on the mortgage, but times had been so bad that he had been forced to use up not only the little he had saved to pay off the principal, but the annual interest also. Gerhardt was helpless, and the consciousness of his precarious situation—the doctor's bill, the interest due upon the mortgage, together with the sums owed butcher and baker, who, through knowing him to be absolutely honest, ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser
... Sweden and Denmark both have good credit. The former, the best; they have money at four per cent; and it is not long since the King of Sweden borrowed three millions of guilders at this interest, to pay off old debts at five per cent. His interest is paid punctually. Prussia has no credit here, but the King's treasury is full by squeezing the last farthing from the people, and now and then he draws a little money from this Republic, ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various
... to offer amusement of the very highest class, so that people will come to the church rather than go elsewhere in their leisure hours and thus be surrounded by influences of the best character and by an atmosphere that is elevating and refining. They have also undertaken to pay off the balance ...
— Russell H. Conwell • Agnes Rush Burr
... who were good for anything were indignant with our captain, this fellow, to curry favour—pah! And to think of his being here! Oh, if he'd a notion I was within twenty miles of him, he'd ferret me out to pay off old grudges. I'd rather anybody had the hundred pounds they think I am worth than that rascal. What a pity poor old Dixon could not be persuaded to give me up, and make a ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... turned out to be a complete failure, and your poor uncle will have to pay off Mr Deering's liabilities. When that is done, I am afraid we shall be very badly off, ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn


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