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What is a pay-off?

What is a pay-off? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A payment.
  2. A reward.
  3. A bribe.
  4. (colloquial) A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction.
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The pay-off comes when the table is finally returned to the antique dealer who gets what might be called her just dessert.
He brings a terrible authority to the cosmic Spinozism of the show's ethical pay-off.
Hambly was edged out in July 2002 and took the company to court to obtain his pay-off.
But it's a bit of a pay-off, you know, driving in a race and winning a race is a fantastic thrill, they love it.
But the biggest pay-off of her improved chemistry grade was her mother getting off her back.
A postponement of joy for some future, but existentially uncertain, pay-off.

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