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Definition: Pay Out |
Pay OutVerb1. Pay out. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | To let out one end of a rope or cable in a controlled manner when the other end is fixed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | To slacken or to let out rope. (references) |
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Synonym: Pay OutSynonym: disburse (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pay Out |
| English words defined with "pay out": bijou ♦ disburse, drop ♦ expend ♦ Seine boat, spend ♦ To freshen the hawse, To pay out, To veer away. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pay out": Checks ♦ Doctor ♦ Money ♦ Wages. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Sounding device made by William P. Trowbridge for Coast Survey Line would pay out of a descending cylinder and stationery cylinder on deck Similar to modern bathythermograph copper wire instrument Civil War intervened stopping research Probably would have worked. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Figure 69. Expendable bathythermograph made by Sippican Corporation. These instruments pay out a copper wire upon descent that has varying conductivity as the temperature changes. Depth is determined as a function of the rate of descent of the instrument. These are used by ships while underway to determine the temperature profile of the water column and corresponding velocity profile. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It is true, governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit every one who enjoys his share of the protection, should pay out of his estate his proportion for the maintenance of it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Expressions using "pay out": pay out of one's pocket ♦ pay out of pocket ♦ pay out on top ♦ pay out ratio ♦ To pay out ♦ To pay out the cable. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "pay out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | spandeer (dedicate, devote, pay, spend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | paguaj (buy, defray, disburse, fee, foot, fork out, give, meet, pay, pay up, plank, reckon, recompense, redeem, remunerate, render, repay, reward, settle), nxjerr para nga xhepi, liroj (acquit, cast off, cheapen, detach, discharge, disengage, dismiss, ease, excuse, free, free oneself, let go, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, pay, relax, release, slack, slacken, unbind, unstring, vacate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развивам (cultivate, develop, do, educate, evolve, make, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unreel, unroll, unswathe, unwind, unwrap, wind off, work up), отпускам (allocate, allot, ease off, grant, issue, loosen, pay away, relax, release, slack, slacken, slouch, unbend, unbrace, unfasten, unleash, unrein, untuck, unwind), наказвам (amerce, castigate, chasten, correct, discipline, penalize, punish, smite, sort out), заплащам (pay, remunerate), изплащам (allow, clear, disburse, discharge, expiate, lift, liquidate, meet, pay, pay away, pay up, repay, settle, sink, take up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "出 (expense, spend; pay out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyplatit (buy out, clear off, pay away, pay off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | give ud (spend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verteren (consume, digest, spend, use up), uitzetten (cut, cut a connection, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off), uitwinden (lower, veer, veer out), uitvieren (lower, veer, veer out), uitgeven (issue, publish, spend), spenderen (dedicate, devote, spend), spanderen (dedicate, devote, spend), besteden (spend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | elspezi (spend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, lay, let, let down, let go, lower, reckon, set, work out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filer (past), dépenser (pay away). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zusetzen (add, affect, afflict, badger, harass, hit hard, importune, lean on, pester, press hard, punish, ride, shell out, take a lot out of, to afflict), verrechnen (clear, credit to an account, debit to an account, offset, reckon up, redeem, to reckon up), verausgaben (spend), fieren (lower, running, to give slack, veer, veer out), auszahlen (buy out, disburse, pay, pay off), auswerfen (allocate, cast, cough up, dig out, disgorge, eject, produce, put out, shovel out, smash, spit, throw out, to disgorge), auslegen (carpet, cover, design, display, explain, inlay, interpret, lend, line, spend, to lay out), ausbezahlen (buy out, disburse, pay off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξοδεύω (consume, lay out, spend, spend money), μαϊνάρω (lower, veer, veer out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשלם בתשלומים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kifizet (disburse, pay off, to buy off, to clear off, to disburse, to discharge, to honor, to honour, to pay off, to pay out, to stump up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengulurkan (extend, pass out, stick out), mengulur (extend, make concessions), membayarkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filare (behave, flirt, run, scram, spiders, spin, steam along). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 払い渡す (to pay, to pay out, to pay over), 懐'痛める (to pay out of one's own pocket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふと"ろ'いためる (to pay out of one's own pocket), はらいわたす (to pay, to pay out, to pay over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiggey magh (allocation, allocation work, assignation, discharge, emit, leak, leakage, let out, rap out, utterance, veer, vent, venting), eeck (clear off debt, pay, pay for, pay off, payment, remittance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aypay outay wydawać. (various references) pagar (acquit, defray, give, pay, pay up, remunerate, repay, requite, retort, return, reward, rip up, satisfy, settle, shell out, spend, to pay, unrip), desembolsar (disburse, outgo), arriar (drop, muzzle). (various references) larga, achita în rate mici. (various references) выплачивать (disburse, pay back), выплатить. (various references) cosg (spend). (various references) odmotati (unbind, uncoil, unreel, unwind), isplatiti (disburse, fee, pay off). (various references) pago (acquittal, acquittance, area, country, defrayal, defrayment, deliverance, discharge, dividend, divvy, do I pay, estate, f, fee, indemnification, installment, instalment, paying, payment, payoff, price, property, region, repayment, settlement, settling, village, wage, zone), pagar (acquit, allow, bear, cheque out, clear off, defray, discharge, divvy, fee, foot, fund, get it in the neck, give, honor, honour, lash out, let in, light, make good, meet, pay, pay away, pay back, pay for, pay over, pay up, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, throw back, to pay), soltar (come across with, come out with, disengage, drop, extricate, let down, let out, loose, loosen, manumit, pay away, put down, release, set free, shoot, unclasp, unhand), gastar (burn, cash, consume, expend, get through, go through, lay out, outwear, part with, play, run through, sink, spend, sport, squander, waste, wear, wear away, wear down, wear out, wear through), filar (lower, running, to give slack, veer, veer out), distribuir (allocate, dispense, distribute, give out, issue, pass out, share out), desembolsar (disburse, fork out, fork up, lash out), arriar (deluge, haul down, lower). (various references) slacka (slacken), släppa ut (blow off, discharge, exhale, let off, let out, pass, release, run off), ge ut (edit, issue, publish, spend), fira (absent oneself, celebrate, celibrate, ease, fete, honor, honour, keep, lionize, observe, slack), betala ut (disburse, pay). (various references) kalama etmek, acısını çıkarmak (avenge, be revenged, compansate oneself for, get equal with smb., get even with, get one's own back, have one's revenge, pay back, pay off, reciprocate, requite, serve smb. out, take revenge for), ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay for, pay in, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, redeem, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay, wipe out), öcünü almak (avenge, be revenged, get even with, get one's own back, revenge, revenge on, take one's revenge). (various references) відплачувати (reciprocate, requite, yield), виплачувати (acquit, pay, pay away, pay over, solve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dispensabit, dispensator, enumerat, enumeravi, erogarentur, erogaverat, expendas, expendere, expendet, expendi, expensarum, expensum, pendebant, pendebantque, pendebat, pendens, pendent, pendentem, pendere, penderent, pendet, pependerat, pependit, supererogaveris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: payout. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-p-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: atopy, pouty. | |
-2 letters: atop, auto, paty, pout, typo, yaup. | |
-3 letters: apt, oat, opt, out, pat, pay, pot, put, pya, tao, tap, tau, top, toy, tup, upo, uta, yap, you, yup. | |
-4 letters: at, ay, op, oy, pa, ta, to, up, ut, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-p-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: autopsy, outplay, outpray, payouts. | |
+2 letters: autotype, autotypy, outplays, outprays. | |
+3 letters: autotypes, hypocaust, outplayed, outprayed, patchouly, purgatory. | |
+4 letters: autography, autopsying, autotrophy, autotypies, auxotrophy, captiously, copulatory, eucalyptol, hypocausts, neuropathy, outplaying, outpraying, plutocracy, polyanthus, popularity, postulancy, poultryman, voluptuary. | |
+5 letters: autocephaly, counterplay, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, exculpatory, expurgatory, inculpatory, naturopathy, paramountcy, paramountly, rapturously, stipulatory, sympetalous, unstoppably. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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