How to Use payout in a Sentence

payout

noun
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  • The firm had raised the payout by 5% to $1.05 a share for the third quarter.
    — Hannah Levitt, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The fact that the shorts are on the hook for the payout adds extra pressure.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Now, Unite sees the new plan for a one-time payout as a good start.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 13 June 2022
  • For those who don’t like math, that’s a 30-to-1 payout at worst.
    — Bob Wankel | Xl Media, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The market with the best odds, in terms of payout, are going to be the winner of the World Cup.
    — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Silent Heat’s victory in the eighth race boosted the payout in the Pick Six to $8,185.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The cash payout on that grand prize would be $648.2 million.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 29 July 2022
  • If a show meets the threshold, 75% of the payout would go directly to the actors.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The Cougars naturally had the option to take the payout from the Irish and move on.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The payout resolves one of the largest mass torts in U.S. history.
    — Aaron Gregg, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The money for the payout will come from the city’s Insurance and Claims Fund.
    — oregonlive, 20 July 2022
  • To simply lower that payout to 6-to-5 [odds], now the house edge goes up to 1.9%.
    — ABC News, 1 June 2023
  • The payout is the latest in a long line of settlements.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Be warned, though: Less than 0.5 percent of SEC tipsters get all the way to a payout.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 21 May 2023
  • Still, women’s players from around the world worked to secure their share of the payout.
    — Allison McCann, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • That is, by far, the largest backdrop payout in the more than two decades the county program has been in place.
    — Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The payout is at least $1 million for those game players.
    — Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2022
  • The cash payout for this jackpot is now $602.5 million.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2022
  • To be sure, the Oracle deal isn’t limited to a cash payout.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Over days, weeks and even months, stock prices can meander far from their payouts.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In this case, the insurance provider will likely write off the wreck as a total loss and provide a payout to the owner.
    — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023
  • Much of those payouts have been funded by huge amounts of new borrowing.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 8 July 2023
  • Had Fury won instead of Usyk, Drizzy’s payout would have been just over a million dollars.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 May 2024
  • The Holiday Bowl has been a longtime partner of the Pac-12, which provides a member team to play in the game in exchange for a payout.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • Feel free to mix in some anytime touchdown props for an even bigger payout.
    — Michael Nwaneri, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The company has plenty of cash to cover its big-time payout.
    — Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Diaz turned down the $15 million payout and will try for a larger award in a new damages trial.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5 July 2022
  • The cash payout is the largest ever approved by the Board of Supervisors in a wrongful-death case, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said.
    — Jeff McDonald, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • His federal lawsuit against the city is pending, but the Cook County board approved a $17 million payout to Wilson last March.
    — Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
  • That probably won’t sit well with the markets or with Republican lawmakers, who would have to approve such payouts in the first place.
    — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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