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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pay·back /ˈpeˌbæk/
 投資回收率

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 payback
      n 1: financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the
           initial investment)
      2: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation
         for something harmful that they have done) especially in
         the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the
         Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing.
         This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James
         Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed
         him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: vengeance,
          retribution]