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What does payback mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) An act of revenge.
  2. (countable) A form of recompense.
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Unlike some, I do not think this public mess is a karmic payback for the actor's failure to indulge the press.
Now I have to go and intimidate Mr Mills for a while as payback for his flippant remark.
There is one group that wants to use democracy as an excuse for political payback and create a theocracy not a democracy.
That large avoided cost was not included in the payback analysis for the chiller changeout, yielding an unacceptably long payback period.
Okay, you kind of felt sorry for them but it was payback time for making the rest of us look like a bunch of muppets in the Maths class.
The other payback is the obvious reduction in weaning stress experienced by calves already eating creep.

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