payout

Noun

payout (plural payouts)

1. An amount of money paid out.
   • 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...2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020, page 55
2. The value of dividends paid to shareholders.