Usually means: Return money or favor owed.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word pay back:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. pay back: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pay back: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pay back: Vocabulary.com
  4. pay-back: Wordnik
  5. pay back: Wiktionary
  6. pay back: Dictionary.com
  7. pay back: Rhymezone
  8. pay back: Free Dictionary
  9. pay back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. pay back: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pay back: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pay back: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pay back: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pay-back, pay back: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pay back)

verb:  (transitive) To pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.
verb:  (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

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