Contextualizebeta

earnout

noun

Etymology

From earn + out.

  1. inherited from *úd✻
  2. inherited from *ūtai✻
  3. inherited from ūte
  4. inherited from *ūt✻
  5. inherited from *ūt✻
  6. inherited from ūt
  7. inherited from out
  8. compounded as earnout — “earn + out”

Definitions

  1. A formula by which the management of a company earns a share of the company's share…

    A formula by which the management of a company earns a share of the company's share capital by achieving results above pre-determined levels.

    • The earnout was definitely getting in the way of running Skype the way we wanted to run it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for earnout. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA