" payoff "

1: to give what is owed for;

  * e.g., " ... I finally paid off the loan "

•  Synonyms : 

•  ante (up),

•  balance,

•  clear,

•  discharge,

•  foot,

•  liquidate,

•  meet,

•  pay,

•  pay up,

•  pony up,

•  quit,

•  recompense,

•  settle,

•  spring (for),

•  stand

•  Antonyms : 

•  repudiate

2: to influence someone with a bribe;

  * e.g., " ... she paid off the security guard so that she could steal whatever she liked "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bribe,

•  buy,

•  corrupt,

•  have,

•  square

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received;

  * e.g., " ... the payoff on the investment was only about $500 "

•  Synonyms : 

•  earnings,

•  gain,

•  lucre,

•  net,

•  proceeds,

•  profit,

•  return

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: as in decisive, pivotal;

•  Synonyms : 

•  deciding,

•  decisive,

•  pivotal,

•  watershed,

•  cataclysmal,

•  earthshaking,

•  epochal,

•  momentous,

•  go-no-go,

•  make-or-break,

•  critical,

•  crossover,

•  crucial,

•  fateful,

•  life-and-death,

•  vital,

•  apical,

•  apogean,

•  crestal,

•  crowning,

•  culminating,

•  high,

•  highest,

•  meridian,

•  apocalyptic,

•  climacteric,

•  climactic

•  Antonyms : 

•  anticlimactic,

•  inconsequential,

•  indecisive,

•  insignificant,

•  noncritical,

•  trivial,

•  unimportant