Payoff may refer to: * Bribery, an act of implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient * A

payoff dominant equilibrium Risk dominance and payoff dominance are two related refinements of the Nash equilibrium (NE) solution concept in game theory, defined by John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten. A Nash equilibrium is considered payoff dominant if it is Pareto superio ...

in game theory *

Payoff matrix In game theory, normal form is a description of a ''game''. Unlike extensive form, normal-form representations are not graphical ''per se'', but rather represent the game by way of a matrix. While this approach can be of greater use in identifying ...

or payoff function in a normal-form game in game theory * Payoff set in set theory * Payoff (film), a 1991 TV film starring

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* '' Gomez & Tavarès'' (AKA ''Payoff'') a 2003 film * A word for

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, used in some countries * Pay off, to move away, fall off, or be pushed round by the wind * 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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