Synonyms of pay off

pay off 1 of 3

verb

1

as in to pay

to give what is owed for

I finally paid off the loan

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pay
• pay up
• meet
• settle
• balance
• spring (for)
• stand
• pony up
• ante (up)
• foot
• liquidate
• discharge
• quit
• clear
• recompense

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repudiate

2

as in to bribe

to influence someone with a bribe

she paid off the security guard so that she could steal whatever she liked

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bribe
• get at
• buy
• have
• lure
• seduce
• poison
• provoke
• entice
• corrupt
• persuade
• square
• tempt
• grease the palm of
• oil the palm of
• lead on
• oil the hand of
• tamper (with)
• grease the hand of
• induce
• subvert
• spur
• motivate
• dishonor
• taint
• prostitute
• bait
• stimulate
• degrade
• debauch
• deprave
• trap
• debase
• defile
• pervert
• demean
• warp
• abase
• allure
• profane
• fix
• goad
• beguile
• flatter
• snare

payoff

2 of 3

noun

ˈpā-ˌȯf 

as in profit

the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received

the payoff on the investment was only about $500

Synonyms & Similar Words

• profit
• earnings
• proceeds
• gain
• return
• income
• salary
• net
• windfall
• lucre
• sales
• cleanup
• revenue
• payment
• wages
• killing
• pay
• compensation
• bottom line
• yield
• interest
• gross
• emolument
• remittal
• requital

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cost
• expense
• loss
• expenditure
• charge
• outlay
• disbursement
• outgo

payoff

3 of 3

adjective

as in pivotal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pivotal
• cataclysmic
• watershed
• decisive
• deciding
• earthshaking
• epochal
• momentous
• make-or-break
• life-or-death
• crucial
• life-and-death
• cataclysmal
• critical
• crossover
• fateful
• crowning
• climactic
• culminating
• highest
• vital
• crestal
• apocalyptic
• go-no-go
• apical
• meridian
• apocalyptical
• climacteric
• high
• apogean

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• anticlimactic
• trivial
• insignificant
• unimportant
• inconsequential
• anticlimactical
• indecisive
• noncritical

Examples of pay off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

My student loan is all paid off, Z still has theirs. —refinery29.com, 4 Sep. 2024

By all measures, the risk has paid off: Lee owns Flourish Curls Salon in Arlington, Texas, a business that brought in $1.1 million in revenue last year, according to financial documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. —Morgan Smith, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2024

Noun

Editor’s Choice: The Top 3 Lip Glosses of 2024 Lip glosses span price points, color payoff, and texture, so finding just one best overall lip gloss was out of the question. —Claire Sullivan, WWD, 7 Aug. 2024

Setting off into the wild blue yonder, with a minimum of planning, does entail taking a chance, but the payoff, for me, has been immense. —Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2024