Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mathematics A quantity to be divided.
- noun A share of profits paid to a stockholder or to a policyholder in a mutual insurance society.
- noun A payment pro rata to a creditor of a person adjudged bankrupt.
- noun A share of a surplus; a bonus.
- noun An unexpected gain, benefit, or advantage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sum to be divided into equal parts, or one to be distributed proportionately.
- noun The share of one of the individuals among whom a sum is so divided; a share or portion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Math.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun arithmetic A number or
expression that is to be divided by another. - noun finance A
pro rata payment of money by acompany to itsshareholders , usually made periodically (eg,quarterly orannually ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly
- noun a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus)
- noun a number to be divided by another number
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When a company decides not to declare a dividend it is said to _pass its dividend_.
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various
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Use the product to multiply the dividend, calling the result the _prepared dividend_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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An administration official said the dividend is a fair price for the companies to pay in exchange for taxpayer support and would be reexamined only in the context of an overall revamp of housing finance policy next year.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac bailout cost is likely to rise to $154 billion, agency projects Zachary A. Goldfarb 2010
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An administration official said the dividend is a fair price for the companies to pay in exchange for taxpayer support and would be reexamined only in the context of an overall revamp of housing finance policy next year.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac bailout cost is likely to rise to $154 billion, agency projects Zachary A. Goldfarb 2010
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An administration official said the dividend is a fair price for the companies to pay in exchange for taxpayer support and would be reexamined only in the context of an overall revamp of housing finance policy next year.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac bailout cost is likely to rise to $154 billion, agency projects Zachary A. Goldfarb 2010
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Most are easy to find by screening for mutual funds or ETFs by category, or searching for funds with the word "dividend" in their names.
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Now, these are things, of course, that will make an average Nigerian feel that he's getting what we call dividend of democracy.
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Now, these are things, of course, that will make an average Nigerian feel that he's getting what we call dividend of democracy.
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What's not fair, it seems to me, is that when the corporation distributes those profits to the shareholders in the form of what they call a dividend, that you tax it again.
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Dividends collected with a short term dividend capture strategy fail to meet the necessary holding conditions to receive the favorable tax treatment and are therefore, taxed at the investor's ordinary income tax rate.
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