pay back

See also: payback and payback

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪ bæk/

Verb

pay back (third-person singular simple present pays back, present participle paying back, simple past and past participle paid back)

1. (transitive) to pay an amount of money owed to another, to repay

   He paid her back with interest.

   He paid back all the money he owed her.

2. (figuratively) to exact revenge

   He paid them back for their conniving.

Translations

to repay

• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: tilbagebetale
• Esperanto: repagi
• Finnish: maksaa takaisin (fi), palauttaa (fi), hyvittää (fi), maksaa (fi)
• French: rembourser (fr)
• German: zurückzahlen (de)

• Greek: εξοφλώ (el) (exofló)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: s'atchitter
• Russian: отплатить (ru) (otplatitʹ), расплатиться (ru) (rasplatitʹsja)
• Spanish: pagar (es)
• Swedish: betala tillbaka, betala tillbaks (colloquial), betala bak (colloquial)

to exact revenge

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: maksaa samalla mitalla, maksaa potut pottuina, palauttaa (fi)
• French: rendre la pareille (fr)
• German: sich revanchieren (de), heimzahlen (de), sich rächen, vergelten (de)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hacer pagar, vengarse (es), desquitarse (es)
• Swedish: hämnas (sv)

See also

• payback

Anagrams

• backpay