Example sentences for: payoff

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

  • Note that Lewinsky got this job as a payoff for being undesirable to a presidential aide, not for being desirable to the president.

  • Or so the story says, quoting five experts in support along the way, before swerving abruptly to a "to be sure" 11th paragraph that says Y2K preparedness "posed an enormous distraction, soaking up time and money that might have been plowed into projects with a more immediate payoff," and that "much of the investment went to inoculate older technology against the computer bug rather than to embrace the newest processes that could revolutionize the way work is done."

  • 4 billion, pocketing $100 million for himself--a modest payoff, he says, for the $6 billion in increased shareholder value.

  • Surely they were disappointed when I expressed some skepticism about the payoff from the controls.

  • 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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