pay out

1. 1.

   expend, as from a fund

   Synonymsdisburse

   Broaderpay

Questions about pay out

What does pay out mean?

pay out means "expend, as from a fund".

What is another word for pay out?

Close synonyms include disburse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pay out a common word?

pay out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.