How to pronounce “pay off”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
• (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
• (transitive) To pay back; to repay.
• (transitive) To pay back (repay) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on (the thing that was financed).
• (transitive) To pay and discharge (an employee).
• (nautical) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.

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