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优势；收益；收效；回报
The payoff from an action is the advantage or benefit that you get from it.
例句
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。
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（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.
例句
Soldiers in both countries supplement their incomes with payoffs from drugs exporters.
两国士兵都用毒品走私贩的贿赂来贴补收入。
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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.
例句
The ousted chairman received a £1.5 million payoff from the loss-making oil company.
被解职的主席从亏损的石油公司那里拿到了150万英镑的解约金。