Meaning of payout | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amount of money paid out.
2. The value of dividends paid to shareholders.

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Examples

“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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