How to Use payout in a Sentence

payout

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • If a show meets the threshold, 75% of the payout would go directly to the actors.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The payout resolves one of the largest mass torts in U.S. history.
    Aaron Gregg, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • To simply lower that payout to 6-to-5 [odds], now the house edge goes up to 1.9%.
    ABC News, 1 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The company has plenty of cash to cover its big-time payout.
    Dallas News, 11 Dec. 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
  • In the event, it was decided that the precise level of air pressure required for a payout wasn’t achieved.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The window to file a claim against Bleacher Report in a class action settlement is open and the clock is ticking to get in on the payout.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • Some of those claims were closed without a settlement or payout.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That still puts it over last season’s $10.5 million payout.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The schools have asked for an increase in payout to $1.5 million each per year, or a minimum of $1.2 million, and a three-year contract.
    al, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Plus, in China at least, settlement payouts aren’t the only risk.
    Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The agreement allows Matthew and the couple’s son to obtain both an insurance payout and a portion of the film’s profits.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In turn banks will be able to hold record amounts of deposits with a fraction of the headcount leading to an explosion of profit and payouts.
    Michael Del Castillo, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Although this deal was approved, there may be a delay in Musk receiving the payout.
    Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
  • The same month, Diaz rejects the reduction in his payout, opening the doors for a retrial.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The payout is estimated to be more than the $75 million that Deutsche Bank agreed to pay his victims earlier this year.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
  • Add picks with demon and goblin emojis that indicate non-standard payouts of up to 100x your initial entry.
    Tim Van Straten, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024

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