payout

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6

Definition of payout

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An amount of money paid out.
    “The maximum payout from this fruit machine is £20.”
    “According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.”
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noun

  1. An amount of money paid out.
    “The maximum payout from this fruit machine is £20.”
    “According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.”
  2. The value of dividends paid to shareholders.

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Etymology

Deverbal from pay out.

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