earnout
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "The earnout was definitely getting in the way of running Skype the way we wanted to run it."
Etymology
From earn + out.