pay off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 verb
yield a profit or result
His efforts finally paid off
Types & categories
- pay hypernym
Sense 2 verb
eliminate by paying off (debts)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- liquidation derivation
Sense 3 verb
pay off (loans or promissory notes)
Types & categories
- pay hypernym
Related & opposite
- redeemer derivation
- redemption derivation
Sense 4 verb
do or give something to somebody in return
Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
Types & categories
- settle hypernym
Related & opposite
- pay back also see
- recompense derivation
- payee derivation
- payer derivation
- remuneration derivation
- compensation derivation
Sense 5 verb
pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
Types & categories
- bribe hypernym
Related & opposite
- crime domain topic
Sense 6 verb
take vengeance on or get even
We'll get them!
Types & categories
- get back hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pay |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | liquidation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pay up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | lift |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | amortize |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | redeemer |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | redemption |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | pay |
| 4 | also see | Related & opposite | pay back |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | recompense |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | payee |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | payer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | remuneration |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | compensation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | settle |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | crime |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | bribe |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | vengeance |
| 6 | verb group | Related & opposite | pay |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | get back |