to pay off
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2.7
- phrasal verb
- /peɪ ɔf/
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- Your stretch goal should be to pay off your auto loan in two years or less.
- pay off debts
- pay off a loan
- pay off a mortgage
Using your tax refund to pay off credit card debt is smart.
- Using your tax refund to pay off credit card debt is smart.
- But I completely paid off all of my margin.
- I could just use this to pay off my student loans.
- I will have officially right now paid off the debt.
- Save more while paying off your debt in a fraction of the time.
- Did not too much pride again and paid off all the business debt.
- Borrow more money, pay off the debts, you'll have good credit.
- You have to be ready to pay that million off at any time.
Examples
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I had to sell my car and pay off my debt to my parents.
Fiction book (1998) -
I sold the boat to pay off some debts.
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The question is, can we pay off that debt?
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Did not too much pride again and paid off all the business debt.
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You have to be ready to pay that million off at any time.
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All he wanted to do was pay off his medical school bills and leave.
Fiction book (2001) -
Using your tax refund to pay off credit card debt is smart.
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How do you expect us ever to pay off the charges you're running up?
Fiction book (1996) -
That's how he paid off the loan.
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I will finally be able to pay off my student loans by the end of this year.
Synonyms
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1.0
To give money for something you buy or owe
298
1.6
Give back money you borrowed from someone
75
1.7
To pay back money you borrowed
35
3.6
Give someone the money you owe them, often after they ask you
14
5.4
Pay off a debt or buy back something by making a payment
Antonyms
How Repaid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to take revenge' cannot be straightforwardly derived from 'pay' (transfer money) combined with 'off' (here noted as a slang verb 'to murder' or otherwise a particle). The relation is idiomatic and relies on pragmatic or slang usage rather than regular compositional rules, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would unlikely infer this meaning.
Etymology
Pay off comes from the act of giving the last money for a debt: you pay what you owe and the debt is off your shoulders, so it means 'to repay the full amount of money owed'.