Dividend
['dɪvɪdend] or ['dɪvɪdɛnd]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Terrance--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Roland
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Share, division.
Inputed by Josiah
Definition
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.
Checker: Merle
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of dividends, augments successful speculations or prosperous harvests. To fail in securing hoped-for dividends, proclaims failure in management or love affairs.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A gambler's reward.
Edited by Francine
Examples
- They had, before this, gradually augmented their dividend from about six to ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For some years past, the bank dividend has been at five and a half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As the daughter of an unlucky speculator, who had paid a very shabby dividend, Mr. Chopper had no great regard for Miss Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Reckoning the ordinary dividend of the bank of England at five and a-half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Another dividend? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The dividend of eleven per cent. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The distress which these accumulated claims brought upon them, obliged them not only to reduce all at once their dividend to six per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have not heard that any of them have called for their dividends yet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Receipts from passengers were $272,589,591, and dividends paid were $94,937,526. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She has let her house at Brighton and has spent her last half-year's dividends. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Here were two machines destined to be joined together, economizing space, enhancing economy, augmenting capacity, reducing investment, and increasing dividends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Within its first year the capital was again increased to $1,000,000, and dividends of 10 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The discussion turned principally on two points: were rent, interest and dividends _earned_? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The company was able to pay large dividends, and the builders found that they could have made no better investment. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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