Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

payoff

 noun
     
pay‧off [countable]
1 an advantage or profit that you get as a result of doing something:
With electric cars there is a big environmental payoff.
2 a payment that is made to someone, often illegally, in order to stop them from causing you trouble [↪ bribe]:
Union leaders allegedly received huge payoffs from the company's bosses.
3 a payment made to someone when they are forced to leave their job [↪ redundancy]:
The average payoff to staff was about £2000.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Dictionary pictures of the day
Do you know what each of these is called?
What is the word for picture 1? What is the word for picture 2? What is the word for picture 3? What is the word for picture 4?
Click on any of the pictures above to find out what it is called.

Explore our topic dictionary

Browse the dictionary