| 词组 | pay off |
| 释义 | pay off 1. pay off sth • pay sth off to pay all the money you owe someone: ▪ Mendez is working overtime to pay off his debts. ▪ Two years after the accident, the Thompsons have finally paid off their son's hospital bills. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑settle 2. pay off if something that you do pays off, it is successful or worth doing: ▪ The band's dedication and practice finally paid off when their single made it to number 1 in the charts. ▪ They took a hell of a risk, but it really paid off in the end. ■ SIMILAR TO: be worth it, pay dividends payoff n C informal an advantage or good result you get from something you do: ▪ Managers need to ensure that expensive, long-term projects have an adequate pay-off. 3. pay sb off • pay off sb to give someone money so they will not tell other people about something, especially something illegal or dishonest: ▪ Police are still trying to figure out who paid Trebble off. ▪ City leaders have been accused of paying off people who want to file complaints. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑buy off payoff n C informal a payment that you make to someone secretly or illegally in order to stop them from causing you any trouble: ▪ Our main witness is refusing to talk - the gang must have threatened her, or given her a payoff. 4. pay sb off • pay off sb especially BrE to stop employing a worker after paying them the wages that you owe them: ▪ Fife's biggest firm of solicitors has been forced to pay off the staff because of the recession. ▪ Although the engineering firm paid off 90 workers, 700 other jobs have been saved. ► compare ↑lay off payoff n C informal a payment that you make to someone when you make them leave their job, especially very large sums of money paid to company directors: ▪ Diller received an incredible $15 million payoff after he was forced to resign earlier this year. |
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