'payback' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to mean returning an amount of money, a favor, or an injury to someone after they have given the same to you. Example sentence: It's only fair that I get to have my payback after all the years I spent helping him.
The US justice department has alleged $10m was sent by South Africa, through Fifa, to Warner in three wire transfers in 2008 as payback for him and two other then Fifa executive committee members backing South Africa in the 2004 vote.
The payback for landlords who sign up to the new social lettings scheme for students will be long-term contracts, guaranteed rent and full lettings management, similar to the lettings and management packages that many private property companies already offer.
If living well is the best revenge, then Eric Bishop provides a study in payback.
Related: Tories not at war with BBC, says business secretary Fortunately, I suspect most of Tuesday's talk of "payback time" (the Sun is rarely subtle) is worthless, not least because the new culture secretary, John Whittingdale, is a wily and cautious old bird.
They want local people to join a consortium and invest £100,000 each, with a guaranteed payback.
A special legislative panel investigating an apparent political payback scheme involving New Jersey governor Chris Christie's aides issued 20 new subpoenas on Thursday, the day the Republican star made his first trip since the scandal broke, to pledge that he will not be distracted from the job of rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy.
If the Economist Intelligence Unit assessment is correct and the Republic does default, the French – and especially the Germans – will be looking for some payback, possibly in the guise of Ireland's low corporation tax.
Only a huge injection of government capital, over and above what it has already committed, can do that – with the promise of total control and a payback at a later stage.
This was payback, he added.
When he announced his candidacy, Rudd promised "no retributions, no paybacks, none of that stuff", but Gillard, the treasurer, Wayne Swan, the climate change minister, Greg Combet, the education minister, Peter Garrett, and the trade minister, Craig Emerson, all immediately announced they were standing down from the frontbench.
"I owe it to people to offer them a viable alternative," he said, vowing there would be "no retributions, no paybacks, none of that stuff" if he won.
