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pay back

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. reward, repay, pay backverb

    act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions

  2. pay back, pay off, get, fixverb

    take vengeance on or get even

    "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"

Wiktionary

  1. pay backverb

    to pay an amount of money owed to another, to repay

  2. pay backverb

    to exact revenge

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pay back in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pay back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of pay back in a Sentence

  1. Social Security deputy commissioner:

    No one, absolutely no one, contrary to what was alleged in the press, no one was asked to pay back a debt that was a debt of their parent or another adult, these were their debts.

  2. President Donald Trump:

    I'm going to request it, harvard's going to pay back the money. They shouldn't be taking it.

  3. Christine Fong:

    Did HSBC look into the clients of SVB in detail? Say, the financial statement — whether they can pay back the loan?

  4. Lois McMaster Bujold:

    You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

  5. Rand Paul:

    The difference between Marco Rubio and I is I show up for work, i think he ought to resign or give his pay back to the taxpayer.


Translations for pay back

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  • revanchieren, zurückzahlenGerman
  • pagarSpanish
  • maksaa, hyvittää, maksaa samalla mitalla, palauttaa, maksaa potut pottuina, takaisinFinnish
  • rembourserFrench

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