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Pay Out

Definition: Pay Out

Pay Out

Verb

1. Pay out.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Pay Out

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Pay Out

Synonym: disburse (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pay Out

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Pay Out

English words defined with "pay out": bijoudisburse, dropexpendSeine boat, spendTo freshen the hawse, To pay out, To veer away. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pay out": ChecksDoctorMoneyWages. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pay Out

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Pay Out

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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.

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Historic Usage: Pay Out

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Pay Out

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.

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Modern Translation: Pay Out

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

   

Polish

  

wydawać. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

larga, achita în rate mici. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выплачивать (disburse, pay back), выплатить. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cosg (spend). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odmotati (unbind, uncoil, unreel, unwind), isplatiti (disburse, fee, pay off). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

відплачувати (reciprocate, requite, yield), виплачувати (acquit, pay, pay away, pay over, solve). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pay Out

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Anagrams: Pay Out

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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