plural of pay-off

An amount of pay, wages, salary, or other compensation before deductions, such as for taxes, insurance, and retirement. / A payment for the entire year's income.

Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment is ended, often in exchange of waiver.

(idiomatic) To face the consequences of one's actions. / (idiomatic) To contribute in order to participate.

(transitive, informal) To bribe, especially to deter oversight. / (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit. / (transitive) To pay back; to repay.

Extra payment given to anybody, civilian or soldier, who is employed in a situation where the working conditions or locale are considered to be hazardous.

A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.

(idiomatic, intransitive) To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.

(intransitive and transitive) To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.

A payment. / A reward. / A bribe. / (colloquial) A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction. / (baseball) Short for payoff pitch.