payback period in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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payback [Am ˈpeɪˌbæk, Brit ˈpeɪbak] N

I.period [Am ˈpɪriəd, Brit ˈpɪərɪəd] N

1.1. period:

period (interval, length of time)
periodo m
period (interval, length of time)
período m
period (when specifying a time limit)
plazo m
a two-year period
un período de dos años
within a two-month period
dentro de un plazo de dos meses
she is away on business for long periods
pasa mucho tiempo fuera or pasa largos períodos fuera en viajes de negocios
for a period of five hours/12 months
por un espacio de cinco horas/período de 12 meses
in such a short period (of time)
en un espacio/en un período tan corto de tiempo
during her period in office
durante el tiempo or período en que desempeñó el cargo
when he returned after a period of illness
cuando regresó tras una enfermedad form
when he returned after a period of illness
cuando regresó luego de una enfermedad LatAm form

II.period [Am ˈpɪriəd, Brit ˈpɪərɪəd] ADJ

See also period piece

payback period in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for payback period in the English»Spanish Dictionary

I.period [ˈpɪəriəd, Am ˈpɪri-] N

II.period [ˈpɪəriəd, Am ˈpɪri-] INTERJ Am

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The program is expected to have a payback period of 3.7 years.
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Going with a refurbished unit can reduce your payback period to around four months.
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This formula can only be used to calculate the soonest payback period; that is, the first period after which the investment has paid for itself.
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As a stand-alone tool to compare an investment to doing nothing, payback period has no explicit criteria for decision-making (except, perhaps, that the payback period should be less than infinity).
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If the cumulative cash flow drops to a negative value some time after it has reached a positive value, thereby changing the payback period, this formula can't be applied.
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If the capitalization rate were 5%, the payback period would be twenty years.
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This is evident from the payback period less than 10 years in most southern hemisphere countries, listed above.
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However, no-till practices combined with cover-crop practices can reduce the payback period to three years for grassland conversion and 14 years for forest conversion.
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With fuel price differentials increasing, the payback period can even be shorter.
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The modified payback period algorithm may be applied then.
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