Both Uses of
dividend
in
Babbitt
- "You got a little dividend coming," said Babbitt to each of them, and each intoned, "Squeeze it, Georgie, squeeze it!"†
Chpt 8 *
- When they had finished the first round she proved by intoning "Think you boys could stand another—you got a dividend coming" that, though she was but a woman, she knew the complete and perfect rite of cocktail-drinking.†
Chpt 13
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