Payback - Definition
payback
n 1: financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the
initial investment)
2: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for
something harmful that they have done) especially in the next
life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--
Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation
is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he
swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness
of divine retribution" [syn: vengeance, retribution,
payback]