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payout

[ pey-out ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of paying, expending, or disbursing.
  2. money paid, expended, or disbursed, as a dividend or winning:

    He went to the betting window to collect his payout.



verb phrase

    1. to distribute (money, wages, etc.); disburse.
    2. to get revenge upon for an injury; requite.
    3. to let out (a rope) by slackening.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of payout1

First recorded in 1900–05; noun use of verb phrase pay out

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Example Sentences

And the payout could be well more than the original $100,000 to $250,000 price tag for Olenicoff.

For the Jackson family, it meant no multibillion-dollar wrongful-death payout.

But was his pursuit of happiness worth the payout (and the fallout)?

This information is then processed in the machine to give the user a price quote, and then the payout in cash.

“SNAP has no credibility whatsoever,” Dolan said last summer when allegations of the payout first surfaced.

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