pay off
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16123·updated Jun 3, 2026verified
pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- buy offfixliquidatepayredeem
- pasttense
- payed off
- presentparticiple
- paying off
- thirdpersonsingular
- pays off
- pastparticiple
- payed off
Framework definitions
- §1
- take vengeance on or get even
- §2
- do or give something to somebody in return
- §3
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- §4
- pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
- §5
- yield a profit or result
- §6
- eliminate by paying off (debts)
Outgoing relationships
No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.