payback
(noun)
noun
1. financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
Definition categories: possession, issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield
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
Similar word(s): retribution, vengeance
Definition categories: act, retaliation, revenge
Sentences with payback as a noun:
- They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback.