Pay Out (Verb)
Meaning
Expend, as from a fund.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The city council decided to pay out $5 million from the disaster relief fund to help the affected families.
- The union was forced to pay out a large portion of its strike fund to support its employees during the labor dispute.
- The company's budget allocated funds to pay out bonuses to its top-performing employees.
- The charity organization had to pay out a significant amount from its donations to cover the medical expenses of the injured children.
- After winning the lawsuit, the defendant was ordered by the court to pay out $1 million in damages to the plaintiff.