PAYING BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paying back mean? 

• PAYING BACK (noun)
  The noun PAYING BACK has 1 sense:

1. a reciprocal group action

  Familiarity information: PAYING BACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAYING BACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reciprocal group action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

getting even; paying back; return

Context example:

in return we gave them as good as we got

Hypernyms ("paying back" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paying back"):

payment; requital (an act of requiting; returning in kind)

retaliation; revenge (action taken in return for an injury or offense)

reciprocation (the act of making or doing something in return)

tit for tat (an equivalent given in return)

 Context examples 

Already-queued orders won't leave idle capacity for some years, Maróth said, and paying back this loan seems realistic.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

You may be paying back child support or a contractor for a home renovation or repair—you get the idea.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)