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Payback vs Reckoning - What's the difference?

payback | reckoning |

As nouns the difference between payback and reckoning

is that payback is (uncountable) an act of revenge while reckoning is the action of calculating or estimating something.

As a verb reckoning is

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payback

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) An act of revenge.
  • They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback .
  • (countable) A form of recompense.
  • * '>citation
  • Synonyms

    * just deserts, poetic justice

    See also

    * have it coming * pay back

    Anagrams

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    reckoning

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of calculating or estimating something.
  • :
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • (lb) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
  • *1817 , (Walter Scott), :
  • *:So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
  • An opinion or judgement.
  • The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
  • Derived terms

    * dead reckoning