payback
Example Sentences
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On Ford’s earnings call last month, Chief Executive Jim Farley said the energy storage business has a “short payback period” and that it can be used to “de-risk the core automotive business.”
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.
History suggests such distortions are often followed by payback effects as activity normalizes, they added.
"It is not payback, but just very real constraints and policy trade-offs," Fix told AFP.
From Barron's
Putting a positive spin on things, one could suggest that February was simply a payback month for better data in January.
From Barron's
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