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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchdividende, fromLatindividendum(“thing to be divided”), future passive participle ofdivido(“to divide”), bysurface analysis,divide +‎-end.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dividend (pluraldividends)

  1. (finance) Acashpayment ofmoney by acompany to itsshareholders, usually madeperiodically (e.g.,quarterly orannually).
    • 1861,Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861,page511:
      On alldividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; ondividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
  2. (arithmetic) A number orexpression that is to be divided by another.
    In "42 ÷ 3" thedividend is the 42.
  3. (figuratively)Beneficialresults from ametaphoricalinvestment (oftime,effort, etc.)
    His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paiddividends when he become first-chair violinist.
    • 2012, Cameron Haley,Retribution‎[1]:
      That blood and pain paid adividend, 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], page163:
      'Why not: you, Elvira, will shortly pay adividend, that is, have a child.'

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Translations

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arithmetic: a number or expression
finance: a payment of money by a company to its shareholders
beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)

Verb

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dividend (third-person singular simple presentdividends,present participledividending,simple past and past participledividended)

  1. (transitive) Topay out a dividend.
    • 1997,Shareholder Rights, Oppression and Good Faith, page40:
      He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented thedividending 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, page324:
      Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 milliondividended up to Blue Jay.

See also

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Other terms used inarithmetic operations:

Advancedhyperoperations:tetration,pentation,hexation

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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dividend m (pluraldividends)

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

Related terms

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Further reading

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchdividende.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dividend n (pluraldividende)

  1. dividend

Declension

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Declension ofdividend
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativedividenddividenduldividendedividendele
genitive-dativedividenddividenduluidividendedividendelor
vocativedividenduledividendelor

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 ofdividend
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitedividenddividends
definitedividendendividendens
pluralindefinitedividenderdividenders
definitedividendernadividendernas

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