From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpayoutpay‧out /ˈpeɪ-aʊt/ noun [countable] MONEYGIVEa large payment of money to someone, for example from an insurance claim or from winning a competition There should be a big payout on this month’s lottery. Some of the victims have been offered massive cash payouts.
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payout• Littlewoods expect the alterations will help them to make big payouts of as much as £2 million on a more regular basis.• Unit costs were down and cash flow up, providing a steady increase in the gainsharing payout to employees.• Cowboys received $ 8 million in payouts in sanctioned rodeos in 1995, but many still claim to have trouble covering expenses.• A turnover of £1.5 billion a year would produce a weekly prize payout of £14 million with one top prize.• Most firms appear to have a target payout ratio of dividends to long-run reported earnings.• But the bigger the risk, the bigger the payout.• A final dividend of 3p increases the total payout by 1p to 4.15p.cash payouts• But according to Money Management's annual survey of with-profits policies, actual cash payouts after that time averaged only £1,173 in 1992.• The policies they sell offer cash payouts in the event of injuries, disability or death sustained in a road crash.• Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke is also said to be planning a number of smaller cash payouts to keep punters' attention.From Longman Business Dictionarypayoutpay‧out /ˈpeɪ-aʊt/ noun [countable]1FINANCEa large sum of money, given to someone for the work they have donean increase in commission payouts for some top-producing brokers2INSURANCE a payment made to someone who has made an insurance claimThe insurance company’s profits fell 13% because of big payouts related to a series of hurricanes.3FINANCE a DIVIDEND payment (=part of a company’s profits for a particular period of time paid to people who own shares in it)The board voted to cut the payouts in response to current operating results. 