dividend
noun/ˈdɪvɪdend/
/ˈdɪvɪdend/
- an amount of the profits that a company pays to people who own shares in the company
- Shareholders will receive an interim dividend payment of 50 cents a share.
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc2, Businessc2- During that time, dividends were cut or passed and there were plenty of closures.
- Investors will still pay tax on their foreign share dividends.
- The board has recommended a final dividend of 6 pence per share.
- The company has not yet declared its dividends for this year.
- The dividend is up 10.6% to 11.3p.
- The dividend should jump to 5p.
- The dividend should rise to 5 cents.
- The dividend stays at 0.5p.
- The final dividend, payable on July 1, is reduced to 1p.
- The fund has a dividend yield of 5.75%.
- The interim dividend is maintained at 2.5 cents per share.
- They have announced the quarterly dividend on the shares.
- a method of valuing shares based on expected dividends
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- high
- large
- …
- pay
- distribute
- get
- …
- be up
- go up
- grow
- …
- payment
- payout
- distribution
- …
- dividend on
- an increase in a dividend
- great advantages or profits
- Exercising regularly will pay dividends in the end.
- The chain's investment in new stores is bringing dividends in new customers.
- The company reaped rich dividends with its new strategy for packaging holidays.
- Her hard work paid dividends when she won the school dancing competition.
- (British English) a payment that is divided among a number of people, for example winners in the football pools or members of a cooperative
- (mathematics) a number that is to be divided by another number compare divisor
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the general sense ‘portion, share’): from Anglo-Norman French dividende, from Latin dividendum ‘something to be divided’, from the verb dividere ‘force apart, remove’.
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