bonus

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1. bonus - Noun

2. bonus - Verb

3. Bonus - Proper noun

Meaning

A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.

An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

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Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus. Gracie Allen

Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus, or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality). Stephen Jay Gould

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. Stephen Hawking

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. Vernon Jordan

Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus. Lucas Grabeel

I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus. Tommy Lee

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