Usually means: Yield returns from an investment.
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  1. pay dividends: Merriam-Webster
  2. pay dividends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. pay dividends: Wiktionary

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  1. pay dividends: Legal dictionary

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  1. pay dividends: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pay dividends)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To bring about something good as a result of past effort or actions.

Similar:
pay off, repay, invoke, sow the seeds of, turn a profit, come good, yield, make it up to, bring to pass, fructify, more...

Opposite:
lose money, incur losses, suffer losses

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Similar:
pay off, repay, invoke, sow the seeds of, turn a profit, come good, yield, make it up to, bring to pass, fructify, more...

Opposite:
lose money, incur losses, suffer losses



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