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Paying back   /pˈeɪɪŋ bæk/   Listen
Paying back

noun
1.
A reciprocal group action.  Synonyms: getting even, return.





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"Paying back" Quotes from Famous Books



... of winning a prize. I'll promise to give you half of whatever I draw, besides paying back ...
— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... something sweet to do; and it would be sweet for a woman to remember in after years, that she had kissed Braham! Mr. Braham himself received these fond assaults with the gallantry of his nation, enduring the ugly, and heartily paying back ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner


Words linked to "Paying back" :   tit for tat, retaliation, revenge, requital, return, payment, group action, getting even, reciprocation


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