off. Okay. We have four meanings and uses of pay off today. All right. So let's take a

look at the first one here. The first one is to produce a profit or some significant

benefit. All right. So we have two examples of this one. Someone might say my

investment in that stock really paid off. I tripled my money. So whatever you put

into it... let's say he put like $2,000 into it. If he tripled his money.

Maybe he got six thousand in return. So he tripled his money. It paid off well

for him. Number three. All the extra studying and preparation I did for the

test paid off well. I got a score of 98. Now, of course this is not an investment in

money. But it is a... it is, it is a significant benefit. You put in a lot of

work and your work paid off. So it brought you a benefit. You are able to

get a high score on the test. Okay. Number two here. To pay the full amount of

something that is owed. Like you , you could pay off a bill . We hear that all

the time. Okay. So it took me 10 years to pay off my school loan.

Yeah. We'll especially use it for something that took a long time to pay

off. Like for example if you just go to the restaurant and you eat food, we would

probably just say you pay the bill. Not pay off the bill. But if

it's if it's like a loan or something that takes a while to pay, then we often

say to pay off. Something that you probably had to pay in installments or

you had to pay for a while. You know, maybe pay off your mortgage or something

like that. So let's continue. We got the second one here. He got in such serious

credit card debt, he was unable to pay it off. He had to declare bankruptcy. So you

could use it that way too. All right. Number three here. To pay the wages that are due

to an employee after being fired. So here's the example. The boss fired him

paid off the last of his wages and told him never to return to the premises

again. So this would be a case probably where he got really angry, fired him. Said

here, here's the last of his money. I never want to see your face again or something

like that. Get out of here. So he just paid him off, so that he wouldn't have to

see him again or he wouldn't have any excuse or reason to return. Okay. Or

number four here. To bribe someone. Yeah. We use it a lot this way. You pay

somebody off, you bribe someone. So let's look at the first one here. It was

discovered that this Olympic judge was paid off to favor a particular

country's athletes. Yeah. Remember a number of years ago there was a case

where I think it was ice skaters. I forget the countries , but I remember that

the one that won the gold medal actually was a girl that fell and normally if you

fall on the ice you can't win. You, you can usually get no medal and they still

got the gold. So that's when they did an investigation. That's when they found out.

A lot of times if the Olympic judges are paid off, it's really hard to find that

out or figure that out. But if it is something like a case like this, maybe they might

investigate enough to check it out. Otherwise it's really hard to prove. All

right. Let's look at the second one here. That politician was paid off to

vote against this bill. He received large campaign donations to

buy his vote. So it was kind of an indirect bribe. But it was still a bribe

nonetheless. Maybe they donated a lot of money to his campaign and maybe even

promised to do more if he would vote you know either for or against something. So

that's a way of bribing politicians. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I

hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.