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Definition of Pay back
1. Verb. Act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions.
2. Verb. Take vengeance on or get even. "This time I got him"
Generic synonyms: Get Back, Get Even
Related verbs: Pay
Derivative terms: Payback
Definition of Pay back
1. Verb. (transitive) to pay an amount of money owed to another, to repay ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively) to exact revenge ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pay Back
Literary usage of Pay back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"C. & E. to pay balance of $40.000, Company to pay back amount oi stock, each
party to pay coste made by themselves. "3. Arbitrate by three persone, ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, House of representatives, United States, Congress (1905)
"Q. Now tell us again what it was that Frank Ball said when you spoke to him about
having to pay back the money that you had paid him? ..."
3. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1869)
"15. Bill of lading construed with reference to the nature of the route and the
count of business. 16. The afier carriers may pay back freight, in conformity ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Mylius "said he had been over to Beverly, and had arranged with Butcher to pay
back all the money paid out on this contract If we would release him; ..."
5. The Law of Nisi Prius, Evidence in Civil Actions, and Arbitration & Awards by Archibald John Stephens (1842)
"A plea of tender of a half year's rent, is not supported by evidence of a tender
of the half year's rent requiring the lessor to get change and pay back the ..."
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