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the moment a promise stops being words and becomes weight in your hand
means A sum of money paid out, especially from a bet, insurance claim, pension, or investment, when the time comes to settle up.
from A plain English compound of "pay" and "out," the kind of practical phrasal noun that English builds endlessly. "Pay" itself has a quietly delightful root: it comes through Old French "paier" from Latin "pacare," meaning "to pacify, to appease" — the same family as "pax," peace. The old logic was that handing over money settles a debt and keeps the other party calm. So a payout is, etymologically, peace measured out — the moment the books are squared and nobody is owed.
- lottery math
- Lump-sum payouts run far below the advertised jackpot
- insurance origin
- Lloyd's began paying claims from a London coffeehouse
- slot odds
- Machine payout percentages are tuned, not random luck
- word root
- "Pay" descends from Latin pacare, to pacify
powerball jackpot winners — largest single payout was $2.04 billion to one ticket in november 2022
lehman brothers creditors — received $112.4 billion payout from bankruptcy estate by 2021