Payoff may refer to: * Bribery, an act of implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient * A payoff dominant equilibrium in game theory * Payoff matrix or payoff function in a normal-form game in game theory * Payoff set in set theory * Payoff (film), a 1991 TV film starring Keith Carradine * '' Gomez & Tavarès'' (AKA ''Payoff'') a 2003 film * A word for slogan, used in some countries * Pay off, nautical term * Paying off, in British Commonwealth contexts, a practice originating in the age-of-sail of ending officers' commissions and of paying crew wages once a ship had completed its voyage; see Ship commissioning#Ship decommissioning ** Paying off pennant, flown in some navies when a ship is decommissioned; see Pennant (commissioning)

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