payback

Example Sentences

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Those locations earn back their roughly $1.4 million build costs in about two years on average, an unusually fast payback in the restaurant industry.

From The Wall Street Journal

If Carroll wondered if he’d ever get payback, it came Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times

It was a fitting payback considering Nkamhoua had carried the Volunteers much of the afternoon.

From Washington Times

Elinor knows she earned “every brick, every peg tile on the roof, every door and every stick of furniture,” but the payback is the dark shadows of guilt and trauma that perpetually plague her.

From Washington Post

Giving McLean a community payback order, Sheriff Matthew Auchincloss said the behaviour was "aggressive" and "controlling".

From BBC