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Payback vs Payout - What's the difference?

payback | payout |

As nouns the difference between payback and payout

is that payback is an act of revenge while payout is an amount of money paid out.

payback

English

(wikipedia payback)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) An act of revenge.
    • They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback .
  • (countable) A form of recompense.
  • * '>citation

    • Synonyms

    * just deserts, poetic justice

    See also

    * have it coming * pay back

    Anagrams

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    payout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of money paid out.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=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 battle.}}
  • The value of dividends paid to shareholders.