Dividend
['dɪvɪdend] or ['dɪvɪdɛnd]
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:特伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:罗兰
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Share, division.
约西亚整理
解釋/意思:
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of dividends, augments successful speculations or prosperous harvests. To fail in securing hoped-for dividends, proclaims failure in management or love affairs.
阿纳托尔校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A gambler's reward.
弗朗辛校對
例句/造句/用法:
- They had, before this, gradually augmented their dividend from about six to ten per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- For some years past, the bank dividend has been at five and a half per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Reckoning the ordinary dividend of the bank of England at five and a-half per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Another dividend? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The dividend of eleven per cent. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The distress which these accumulated claims brought upon them, obliged them not only to reduce all at once their dividend to six per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have not heard that any of them have called for their dividends yet. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Receipts from passengers were $272,589,591, and dividends paid were $94,937,526. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- She has let her house at Brighton and has spent her last half-year's dividends. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Here were two machines destined to be joined together, economizing space, enhancing economy, augmenting capacity, reducing investment, and increasing dividends. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Within its first year the capital was again increased to $1,000,000, and dividends of 10 per cent. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The discussion turned principally on two points: were rent, interest and dividends _earned_? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The company was able to pay large dividends, and the builders found that they could have made no better investment. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
手打:奥斯伯特