payoff 的 2 个定义
- the payment of a salary, debt, wager, etc.
- the time at which such payment is made.
- the consequence, outcome, or final sequence in a series of events, actions, or circumstances: The payoff was when they fired him.
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- yielding results, especially rewarding or decisive results: The payoff play was the long pass into the end zone.
payoff 近义词
conclusion, climax
更多payoff例句
- That could triple the financial payoff for shareholders, including Burry, whose investment firm owned 2 million shares.
- With that profile as backdrop, the few advertisers already on the app are now hoping the work they’re doing now leads to a big payoff down the line.
- The companies asking for body photographs and videos think the payoff is worth the exposure.
- Now, however, opting into one of those services provides random companies with a lot more information than they need about you for almost no payoff.
- These areas of open ocean beyond the territorial jurisdiction of any nation are generally considered high-effort, low-payoff fishing grounds, yet fishers continue to work in them anyway.
- Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.
- If we enter with science and respect, the payoff will last generations.
- They liked the way [the alternate ending] made the audience feel rather than just having a big payoff.
- The risk of being wrong was small, but the potential payoff for being right was amazingly high.
- He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”
- De Quille had not missed the opportunity of his comrade's absence to payoff some old scores.
- A cosmic pitch like this could bring a galactic payoff, whatever it might be.
- "Now it's all over but the payoff," thought Jerry, waiting for Mr. Bartlett to make out the grocery slip.
- And frequently no one suspects the direction the payoff finally takes.
- It puts a premium not on salesmanship, but on what it needs most—intellectual production, the research payoff.