All 3 Uses of
dividend
in
The Mill on the Floss
- He saw a possibility, by much pinching, of saving money out of his salary toward paying a second dividend to his creditors, and it would not be easy elsewhere to get a situation such as he could fill.†
Chpt 3.9
- I'll stop in the old place, and I'll serve under Wakem, and I'll serve him like an honest man; there's no Tulliver but what's honest, mind that, Tom,"—here his voice rose,—"they'll have it to throw up against me as I paid a dividend, but it wasn't my fault; it was because there's raskills in the world.†
Chpt 3.9
- "And you know I wouldn't pay a dividend with the first hundred, because I wanted to see it all in a lump,—and when I see it, I'm sure on't.†
Chpt 5.2 *
Definition:
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(dividend as in: dividend paid by stock) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders