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Payee vs Payout - What's the difference?

payee | payout |

As a verb payee

is .

As a noun payout is

an amount of money paid out.

payee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One to whom money is paid.

    • Antonyms

    * payer

    payout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of money paid out.
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    • , 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.