pay off

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To bribe, especially to deter oversight.

   “I thought the guards would give us trouble, but apparently he had paid them off.”

2. fiil To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.

   “Her years of Spanish classes finally paid off when she found herself in Mexico and realized she could communicate with people.”

3. fiil To pay back; to repay.

   “He paid off the loan three months early.”

4. fiil To pay back (repay) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on (the thing that was financed).

   “This contract requires you to pay off the car by 2025.”

5. fiil To pay and discharge (an employee).

   “The cook, who had been an indifferent worker on the trip over, came aboard drunk and was immediately paid off. Amazingly, twenty men applied to fill the vacancy.”

6. fiil To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.