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dividend

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French dividende, from Latin dividendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of divido (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide +‎ -end.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/
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Noun

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dividend (plural dividends)

  1. (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...
  2. (arithmetic) A number or expression that is to be divided by another.
    In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.
  3. (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

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Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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dividend (third-person singular simple present dividends, present participle dividending, simple past and past participle dividended)

  1. (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.

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Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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dividend m (plural dividends)

  1. (arithmetic) dividend
  2. (finance) dividend
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Further reading

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French dividende.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dividend n (plural dividende)

  1. dividend

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative dividend dividendul dividende dividendele
genitive-dative dividend dividendului dividende dividendelor
vocative dividendule dividendelor

Further reading

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Swedish

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Noun

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dividend c

  1. (arithmetic) dividend
  2. (finance, Finland) dividend

Declension

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Declension of dividend
nominative genitive
singular indefinite dividend dividends
definite dividenden dividendens
plural indefinite dividender dividenders
definite dividenderna dividendernas

Synonyms

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