payback period

Definitions

Accounting

• noun a period of time over which a loan is to be repaid or an investment is to pay for itself
• noun the length of time it will take to earn back the money invested in a project

Economics

• noun the time taken for the total interest on an investment to equal the amount of the initial investment

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Contexts for “payback period”

3 definitions in context
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