- 1（努力後得到的）成果、回報；（也指非法的）賄款；（故事或笑話的）結局、笑點
A payoff is the good result or reward you finally get after working hard for a long time — 'the payoff of years of training' is winning the competition. It can also mean money paid secretly and to get someone to do something, like a bribe. In stories or jokes, the payoff is the final part that everything was building up to.
core核心畫面
組成pay + off — the sense of 'paying something off completely', which grew into 'the final reward'.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- pay-off
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。