paying back

Questions about paying back

What does paying back mean?

paying back means "a reciprocal group action".

What is another word for paying back?

Close synonyms include return, getting even. 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 paying back a common word?

paying back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.