1N-COUNT 优势;收益;收效;回报 The payoff from an action is the advantage or benefit that you get from it. 优势;收益;收效;回报
If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous.
如果这些材料能够普遍用于光学产业,那么这一突破带来的收益将非常巨大。
You're doing what you really love to do, which is making music — that's the payoff.
你现在做着你真正喜欢做的事情,也就是音乐制作—这就是回报。
2N-COUNT (用于避免麻烦的)封口费,贿赂 A payoff is a payment which is made to someone, often secretly or illegally, so that they will not cause trouble. (用于避免麻烦的)封口费,贿赂
Soldiers in both countries supplement their incomes with payoffs from drugs exporters. [+ from]
两国士兵都用毒品走私贩的贿赂来贴补收入。
3N-COUNT 解约金;遣散费 A payoff is a large payment made to someone by their employer when the person has been forced to leave their job. 解约金;遣散费
The ousted chairman received a £1.5 million payoff from the loss-making oil company.