Payback

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  payback \payback\ n.
     same as {retribution}. [informal]
     [PJC]
  
     2. same as {requital}. [informal]
        [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  payback
       n 1: financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the
            initial investment)
       2: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation
          for something harmful that they have done) especially in
          the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the
          Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing.
          This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James
          Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed
          him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: {vengeance},
           {retribution}]