payoutn.
/ˈpeɪaʊt/, U.S. /ˈpeɪˌaʊt/ 1. A (large) amount of money paid out, esp. as compensation or a dividend.In quot. 1904: an enterprise which is profitable.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > lump sum > paid as compensation
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1904 Dial. Notes 2 386 Pay out, n. Said of a well which more than returns the expense of drilling and pumping, or the capital invested in it.
1930 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 30 16 As funds become available, the members receive ‘pay-outs’.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. b10/6 Profit..will not increase above last year's $1.05 a share because of payouts on long-range marketing programs.
1995 New Scientist 29 July 25/2 Kazakhstan now demands rent of $115 million per year—a hefty payout for the struggling Russian economy.
2.
a. The action or process of paying out (in various senses); an instance of this.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun]
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1917 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 47 147 The frames [of the looms] are extremely flimsy, ill-fitted together, and slovenly... The frequent omission of a pay-out hole in the shuttle is very probably a sure sign of decay.
1959 M. G. de Chazeau & A. E. Kahn Integration & Competition in Petroleum Industr. xi. 345 In planning a pay-out of 4 3/4 years on the $7 million line, Gulf estimated a saving of $1.9 million gross per year on transporting its own crude.
1968 Nature 23 Nov. 752/1 Ross identified the bottom by a decrease in the rate of pay out of line from the free-spooling reel.
1991 C. A. Kisiel tr. M. Kalecki Coll. Wks. II. iv. 392 The increase in other taxes and the decline in the pay-out of unemployment benefits..were offset by an increase in government expenditure.
b. A place at which payments are made. Chiefly attributive.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > payment desk in shops, restaurants, etc.
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1977 J. Wainwright Day of Peppercorn Kill 70 At the payout, she wrote a cheque.
1980 Economist (Nexis) 31 May 47 Students staged a demonstration in support of the meat strikers..entering supermarkets..to..jam payout counters with dozens of loaded trolleys.
1986 PR Newswire (Nexis) 21 Apr. A payout window, where shareholders will be able to present their Warnaco stock certificates and receive the cash portion of the consideration.
1999 Africa News (Nexis) 6 Oct. Home Affairs has..allocated officials to register children at pension payout points.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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