| 单词 | payoff |
| 释义 | payoff (peɪɒf ) also pay-off Word forms: payoffs 1. countable noun The payoff from an action is the advantage or benefit that you get from it. The payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous. [+ from] You're doing what you really love to do, which is making music–that's the payoff. 2. countable noun A payoff is a payment which is made to someone, often secretly or illegally, so that they will not cause trouble. He owned luxury property abroad, bought with payoffs from foreign companies. [+ from] 3. countable noun A payoff is a large payment made to someone by their employer when the person has been forced to leave their job. The ousted chairman received a £1.5 million payoff from the loss-making oil company. Collocations: receive a payoff The corporation will not tell me if he will receive a payoff. Times, Sunday Times He will receive a payoff equivalent to one year's salary at 650,000. Times, Sunday Times The other 80 workers will receive a payoff of €18,000 (13,000) each. Times, Sunday Times The media suggested he'd receive a payoff as high as 40 million. Times, Sunday Times He will receive a payoff of nearly 70,000, the equivalent of six months' salary. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 收益某行动的 Japanese: 報い行為の |
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