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Payoff

Also found in: Dictionary, Financial.

Payoff may refer to:

  • Bribery, an act of implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient
  • Payoff, Inc. a Costa Mesa, CA-based financial services company
  • A payoff dominant equilibrium in game theory
  • Payoff matrix or payoff function in a normal-form game in game theory
  • Payoff set in set theory
  • Payoff (film), a 1991 TV film starring Keith Carradine
  • Gomez & Tavarès (AKA Payoff) a 2003 film
  • A word for slogan, used in some countries
  • Pay off, to move away, fall off, or be pushed round by the wind
  • Paying off, in British Commonwealth contexts, a practice originating in the age-of-sail of ending officers' commissions and of paying crew wages once a ship had completed its voyage; see Ship commissioning#Ship decommissioning

See also

  • The Payoff (disambiguation)
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