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

Word History and Origins

Origin of payout¹

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

Example Sentences

To calculate the typical officer’s payout, we assumed an officer would work a 20-year career with 8-hour work days, adding up to 2,080 hours in a year, which is the method used to calculate the hourly rate in most of the contracts.

From ProPublica

The Press and ProPublica also found that unions and towns have a loophole that gets around the limit the state Legislature put on the payouts.

From ProPublica

After doing your math, choose the option that will give you better payouts.

From Search Engine Watch

ProPublica examined dozens of the biggest payouts in cases where civilians had also filed complaints with the city agency that reviews alleged police abuse.

From ProPublica

That between the stock market’s crumbling and many insurers presumably being responsible for a lot of payouts because of the pandemic.

From Freakonomics

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast