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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Plus, in China at least, settlement payouts aren’t the only risk.
    Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • In California, prize payout amounts are determined by the sales and the number of winners.
    Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • In California, prize payout amounts are determined by the sales and the number of winners.
    Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Others agreed that even if Musk were to offer every creator a payout, the site’s rightward turn would keep them from posting.
    Taylor Lorenz, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
  • Within days, nearly half a million people had reportedly signed up for the chance to get the payout.
    Meg Kinnard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • The payout would come on top of an existing quarterly dividend of the same value.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • What is the Mega Millions payout on matching 2 lottery numbers?
    Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Related Tension over the platform’s low payouts started to grow as well.
    Elias Leight, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Auburn will return the same payout to Cal and the same ticket allotments for next year’s game at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Six months from now, Aiyuk should have a contract extension in hand, the latest edition of the 49ers’ annual payout for a homegrown star.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • For the 11th straight week, no one picked the right combination of numbers for the Powerball jackpot, which has driven the lottery to the ninth largest payout in its history.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • The two apparently didn’t produce enough content—just one show in two-and-a-half years—to get the full payout, media reports suggest.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 16 June 2023
  • In California, prize payout amounts are pari-mutuel, meaning it's determined by the sales and the number of winners.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
  • What is the Powerball payout on matching 2 lottery numbers?
    Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And the payout only gets worse as your home ages because the depreciation has increased.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Investors have tried to lock in favorable payouts at a time of higher interest rates.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And don’t forget: The payout cycle encompasses six years on a rolling basis.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The payout of each bet depends on the current market price, a proxy for how likely bettors believe a certain outcome will be.
    Bella Ramirez, NBC News, 10 July 2023

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