payoff

Meaning of payoff

noun
  1. a payment made to someone, especially as a bribe or on leaving a job.
    he left the company with an £800,000 pay-off

Information about payoff

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of payoff is: payoffs.
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Hyphenation of payoff

pay-off

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • payoff is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

payoff synonyms

Meaning bribe:

bribe

Meaning return:

return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield

Meaning wages:

wages, reward

Meaning the action or process of paying someone or something or of being paid:

payment

Meaning a large payment of money, especially as compensation or a dividend:

payout

Meaning compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made:

recompense

Meaning careful thought, typically over a period of time:

consideration

Meaning a thing that persuades or leads someone to do something:

inducement

Meaning something used to attract or to tempt someone; a lure:

enticement

Meaning a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something:

incentive

Meaning the practice of bribing someone in return for the unofficial promotion of a product in the media:

payola

Meaning an illicit payment made to someone in return for facilitating a transaction or appointment:

kickback

Meaning a substance used to sweeten food or drink, especially one other than sugar:

sweetener

Meaning a tapering orange-coloured root eaten as a vegetable:

carrot

Meaning a blow made with the back of the hand:

backhander

Meaning a stroke or blow given by a sharp-edged implement or by a whip or cane:

cut

Meaning a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap:

graft

Meaning a stopper for closing a hole in a container:

bung

Meaning old-fashioned or less technical term for oedema:

dropsy

Meaning the incidental or unofficial promotion of a person or product in the media, sometimes in return for a payment:

plugola

Meaning an underhand inducement:

schmear

Meaning a flexible strap or belt used in the form of a loop to support or raise a hanging weight:

sling

Meaning a financial inducement; a bribe:

douceur

Meaning a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface:

drop

Translation of payoff

Anagrams of payoff

offpay

Words that rhyme with payoff

layoff, playoff, flyoff, buyoff

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