dividend

Speech parts

1. dividend - Noun

2. dividend - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

commission overstock benet redwing take return interest cut division income numerator plum perk meed share
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Antonyms

loss debt compete expenditure obstacle crumb
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Hypernyms

number net profit bonus earnings incentive

Hyponyms

numerator divvy equalizing dividend extra dividend

Phrases with the word

dividend in shares stock dividend dividend payment

Examples

Soldiers 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

Close letter words and terms

dividedly dividedness dividence dividend equalisation reserve dividend in shares dividend reinvestment plan