pan-outn.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to pan out.
Etymology: < to pan out (see pan v.3 3d).
U.S. colloquial.
rare.
1911 J. C. Lincoln xvi. 254 I imagine whatever the pan-out it will be welcome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).