Dictionary Definition
payoff
Noun
1 the final payment of a debt [syn: final
payment]
2 payment made to a person in a position of trust
to corrupt his judgment [syn: bribe]
3 the income arising from land or other property;
"the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, proceeds, take, takings, yield]
4 a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for
wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"
[syn: wages, reward]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Extensive Definition
Payoff may refer to:
- A Payoff dominant equilibrium in game theory
- Payoff matrix or Payoff function in a Normal form game in game theory
- Payoff set in set theory
- Du ji (AKA Payoff), a 1979 film directed by Yen Hua.
- Payoff (film), a 1991 TV film starring Keith Carradine
- Payoff (1998 film), a 1998 rockumentary film by Kaylyn Thornal
- Gomez & Tavarès (AKA Payoff) a 2003 film
See also
payoff in Dutch: Payoff
payoff in Japanese: ペイオフ
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Z, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, amortization, amortizement, apodosis, binder, bitter end, boodle, bribe, bribe money, cash, cash payment, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, clearance, climax, coda, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of
doom, culmination,
curtain, curtains, death, debt service, decease, defrayal, defrayment, denouement, deposit, destination, destiny, disbursal, discharge, doling out,
doom, down payment,
earnest, earnest money,
effect, end, end point, end result, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final result, final solution,
final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, goal, gratification, gratuity, hire purchase, hire
purchase plan, hush money, installment, installment
plan, interest payment, izzard, last, last act, last breath, last
gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, liquidation, monthly
payments, never-never, omega, paying, paying off, paying out,
paying up, payment,
payment in kind, payola,
period, peroration, prepayment, protection, quarterly
payments, quietus,
quittance, regular
payments, remittance,
resolution, resting
place, retirement,
satisfaction,
settlement,
sinking-fund payment, sop,
spot cash, stoppage,
stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, weekly payments,
windup