meaning of payback
1. 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"
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