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

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.

plural of pay-off

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pay off

present participle of pay off

To settle old grudges by taking revenge.