Payoff
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A payment.
Example sentence: We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
Wages
Part of speech: noun
Definition: (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.one's total income for a time period
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To wager, bet.
Example sentence: The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.