It'll be the final chapter, the payoff.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
The research already completed was so close to a payoff, after years and years of grinding lab work and thousands of white mice, that the deal could be considered an investment where 95 percent of the seed money had already been supplied by taxpayers.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
De Quille had not missed the opportunity of his comrade's absence to payoff some old scores.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1835-1866 The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine