1. dividend - Noun
2. dividend - Verb
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.
A number or quantity which is to be divided.
Source: Webster's dictionarySoldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. Siegfried Sassoon
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend. Walter Bagehot
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves. J. G. Ballard
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly. Martin Feldstein
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace. Margaret Thatcher
It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh