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• Salesman, bust say, discharges debt
• Settles a loan
• Settles financially
• Exacts retribution for
• Settles with
• Satisfies a financial obligation
• Refunds, reimburses
• Gives money back rather early perhaps, as you say at the outset
• Refunds from agent, when handling unknown
• Gets back at group involved in craven gesture
• Retaliates in craven gesture
• Acts in retaliation