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Paying back   /pˈeɪɪŋ bæk/   Listen
Paying back

noun
1.
A reciprocal group action.  Synonyms: getting even, return.






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"Paying back" Quotes from Famous Books



... good of hundreds where thousands are needed? If the Berlin purchase had come to something, I might at least have used the offer in order to prove to a man of business here that I possessed "capital," and to induce him to lend me the necessary sum for three years, paying back one-third every year. But this hope also has vanished. No one will undertake such an affair unless he has personal confidence in my future (?) successes. Such a man, dearest Franz, you must find for me. Once more, I want from 3,000 to 4,000 thalers in order to find perfect ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 • Francis Hueffer (translator)



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