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📖 Определения и значения для слова payback

📒 the money that you receive back on money that you have invested (especially when this is equal to the amount that you invested to start with); the time that it takes to get your money back

  • a 10-year payback
  • There’s a 25-year payback period, which will discourage most investors.

📒 the advantage or reward that somebody receives for something they have done; the act of paying something back

  • His victory was seen as payback for all the hard work he'd put in during training.
  • (informal) It's payback time! (= a person will have to suffer for what they have done)
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