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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French dividende, from Latin dividendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of divido (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide + -end.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dividend (plural dividends)
- (finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).
- 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:
- On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
- (arithmetic) A number or expression that is to be divided by another.
- In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.
- (figuratively) Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)
- His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.
- 2012, Cameron Haley, Retribution[1]:
- That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.
- 2014, Bobby Adair, Slow Burn: Dead Fire, Book 4:[2]:
- The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together.
- 2016, Christina Stead, The Beauties and Furies[3], page 163:
- 'Why not: you, Elvira, will shortly pay a dividend, that is, have a child.'
Hyponyms
[edit]- (finance: pro rata payment): regular dividend, special dividend
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]arithmetic: a number or expression
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beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)
Verb
[edit]dividend (third-person singular simple present dividends, present participle dividending, simple past and past participle dividended)
- (transitive) To pay out a dividend.
- 1997, Shareholder Rights, Oppression and Good Faith, page 40:
- He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented the dividending of the shares in Hawker Holdings to the shareholders of Hawker Siddeley […]
- 2007, Kevin K. Boeh, Paul W. Beamish, Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases, page 324:
- Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 million dividended up to Blue Jay.
See also
[edit]Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
- successor
- addition, summation:
- subtraction:
- (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication, factorization:
- (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
- (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
- division:
- exponentiation:
- root extraction:
- logarithmization:
- log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dividend m (plural dividends)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “dividend” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French dividende.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dividend n (plural dividende)
Declension
[edit]Declension of dividend
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) dividend | dividendul | (niște) dividende | dividendele |
genitive/dative | (unui) dividend | dividendului | (unor) dividende | dividendelor |
vocative | dividendule | dividendelor |
Further reading
[edit]- dividend in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]dividend c
Declension
[edit]Declension of dividend
Synonyms
[edit]- (finance): utdelning
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