Dividend
['dɪvɪdend] or ['dɪvɪdɛnd]
解释:
(noun.) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus).
(noun.) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly.
(noun.) a number to be divided by another number.
编辑:特伦斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.
(n.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.
录入:罗兰
同义词及近义词：
n. Share, division.
约西亚整理
解释:
n. that which is to be divided: the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual by way of interest or otherwise.—Declare a dividend to announce the sum per cent. a trading concern is prepared to pay its shareholders.
整理:默尔
娱乐性解释：
To dream of dividends, augments successful speculations or prosperous harvests. To fail in securing hoped-for dividends, proclaims failure in management or love affairs.
阿纳托尔校对
娱乐性解释：
A gambler's reward.
弗朗辛校对
例句:
- They had, before this, gradually augmented their dividend from about six to ten per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- For some years past, the bank dividend has been at five and a half per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- As the daughter of an unlucky speculator, who had paid a very shabby dividend, Mr. Chopper had no great regard for Miss Sedley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Reckoning the ordinary dividend of the bank of England at five and a-half per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Another dividend? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Up to that time we had never paid anything; but we got around to the point where the board declared a dividend every Saturday night. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The dividend of eleven per cent. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The distress which these accumulated claims brought upon them, obliged them not only to reduce all at once their dividend to six per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I have not heard that any of them have called for their dividends yet. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Receipts from passengers were $272,589,591, and dividends paid were $94,937,526. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- She has let her house at Brighton and has spent her last half-year's dividends. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Here were two machines destined to be joined together, economizing space, enhancing economy, augmenting capacity, reducing investment, and increasing dividends. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Within its first year the capital was again increased to $1,000,000, and dividends of 10 per cent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The discussion turned principally on two points: were rent, interest and dividends _earned_? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The company was able to pay large dividends, and the builders found that they could have made no better investment. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
手打:奥斯伯特