Meanings
plural payouts
- An amount of money paid out.
The maximum payout from this fruit machine is £20.
1 more example
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.
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020, page 55 - businessThe value of dividends paid to shareholders.
Origin
Deverbal from pay out.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish maksu, osinkosumma
- maksuan amount of money paid out
- osinkosummathe value of dividends paid to shareholders
French paiement
- paiementan amount of money paid out
Indonesian pembayaran
- pembayaranan amount of money paid out
Malay bayar, bayaran
- bayaran amount of money paid out
- bayaranan amount of money paid out
Russian вы́плата, вы́плата
- вы́плата (výplata)an amount of money paid out
- вы́плата (výplata)the value of dividends paid to shareholders
Spanish pago
- pagoan amount of money paid out
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Cite this entry
payout. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/payout
“payout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/payout. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “payout,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/payout.
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