pay off

Questions about pay off

What does pay off mean?

pay off means "yield a profit or result". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for pay off?

Close synonyms include liquidate, redeem, pay, make up, compensate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pay off a common word?

pay off is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.