To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth.
To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
To pay back; to repay.
To pay back (repay, pay off) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on.
To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.