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payoff

/pey-awf, -of/US // ˈpeɪˌɔf, -ˌɒf //

报酬,报偿,报答,报销

Related Words

consequence后果,后果是,后果是什么outcome结果,成果,结果是,结果是什么reward奖励,奖赏,报酬,奖金payment支付,支付费用,支付方式,支付款项settlement解决问题,解决方法,解决,解决方式retribution报应,报复,报酬,报偿culmination高潮,顶点,高峰,顶峰pay支付,支付费用,支付的费用,支付报酬finale结局,结束语,结尾,终结篇clincher凝固器,凝固剂,凝固者,凝固的result结果,成果,效果,结果是upshot结果,结果是adjustment调整,调节,调整内容,调整后judgment判断,判断力,判决,审判day of reckoning审判日,清算日,审判之日,计时日moment of truth真理的时刻,关键时刻,真理时刻,真相时刻punch line打趣话,打趣地说,打趣说,打油诗

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : Informal. the climax of something, especially a story or joke.
    • : a settlement or reckoning, as in retribution or reward.
    • : Informal. a bribe.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : yielding results, especially rewarding or decisive results: The payoff play was the long pass into the end zone.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounconclusion, climax
Synonyms
consequence后果,后果是,后果是什么outcome结果,成果,结果是,结果是什么payment支付,支付费用,支付方式,支付款项reward奖励,奖赏,报酬,奖金settlement解决问题,解决方法,解决,解决方式adjustment调整,调节,调整内容,调整后clincher凝固器,凝固剂,凝固者,凝固的culmination高潮,顶点,高峰,顶峰finale结局,结束语,结尾,终结篇judgment判断,判断力,判决,审判pay支付,支付费用,支付的费用,支付报酬result结果,成果,效果,结果是retribution报应,报复,报酬,报偿upshot结果,结果是day of reckoning审判日,清算日,审判之日,计时日final reckoning最后的清算,最后清算,决算,最后的计算moment of truth真理的时刻,关键时刻,真理时刻,真相时刻punch line打趣话,打趣地说,打趣说,打油诗

Examples

  • 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.

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