payback

Example Sentences

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Management has allocated about 300 million ringgit, with a payback period of around 1.9 years to deal with one-off expenses from a voluntary separation scheme, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

"It is not payback, but just very real constraints and policy trade-offs," Fix told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

And I asked the class, “Do you think that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified as payback for what the Japanese military had done in Nanjing?”

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

"If this is payback time, this is my redemption," said Lai, who was then out on bail.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

As the payback for giving me the dirty finger I said out loud to By, “How many cows you counted, By? How many red cars so far?”

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis