Example sentences for: payoff

How can you use “payoff” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although the alleged quid pro quo was the helping to cover up the sex, rather than the sex itself (and although Lewinsky never actually enjoyed the alleged payoff), the articles of impeachment nevertheless assume that Flytrap is about an exchange of favors.

  • This denotes the temptation to defect (T), which is the best option against the reward for mutual cooperation (R) which is in turn better than mutual defection (P), with the worst payoff coming from the Sucker's payoff (S) for cooperating when the opponent defects.

  • In what is no doubt the payoff for concerted auto industry press lobbying, the Wall Street Journal , NYT , and LAT each run front-page stories about the Big Three's renewed interest in producing less-guzzling, less-polluting cars.

  • More to the point, these Jewish kids and their parents have decided to devote endless hours of childhood to an activity with no career payoff.

  • Finally, while we have pointed out that the PD game can be upset by payoff variation, it remains for future research to probe the question of whether, and how, noisy payoff matrices will actually promote or hinder the evolution of cooperative behaviour itself.


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