Wiktionary
n. 1 A payment. 2 A reward. 3 A bribe.
Usage examples of "pay-off".
Leiter out by going to the Acme Baths to make the pay-off if Shy Smile failed to win the race.
In the end, five minutes before the arsonist was due to arrive at their rendezvous for his final pay-off, the Vances reached a compromise.
That was the big pay-off, the triadic bonus, which came as surely as the energy bounty obtained by adding that last pellet of fissionable material.
This was the one night when Sargon could risk crime on his premises, since it was to be the pay-off.
In the end, when he had made the promised big pay-off after his second trip abroad, he had come to an arrangement, agreeing to regular payments, and he kept on the move, each time hoping to leave no trail, but his blackmailer always found him.
Carver noted that a Tory trade minister, learning of the pay-off, publicly congratulated Balfour Beatty on its patriotic competitiveness.
Like Charteris, he immediately thought it was a U-boat caught surfacing in a snow storm, the pay-off of the attack by the Condors: the thought that Asdic or radar would certainly have picked it up never occurred to him.
You have been given extraordinary opportunities to achieve Pay-off early in your career.