dividendin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
dividend as in: dividend paid by stock
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She buys high-dividend stocks.
dividend = earnings paid to stock shareholders
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It's the kind of thing that continues to pay dividends.† (source)
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Unfortunately VistaBank had ceased paying dividends, and failed, shortly before Mr. Barbour's death.† (source)
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We are neurologically constructed so that we gain huge personal dividends from altruism.† (source)
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We sue for mismanagement by the directors, for unpaid dividends, for violation of the bylaws, for improper issuance of stock.† (source)dividends = earnings paid to stock shareholders
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Thursday was the only delivery day left for Liesel Meminger now, and it was usually able to provide some sort of dividend.† (source)dividend = the amount of money paid as earnings for each share of stock (usually paid quarterly)
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At least here, the effort is bearing dividends.† (source)dividends = earnings paid to stock shareholders
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Presently they reached the crossing at Broad Street where John would turn toward Dividend, and they stood for a moment, both unwilling to end this rare moment of comradeship.† (source)Dividend = the amount of money paid as earnings for each share of stock (usually paid quarterly)
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And while the dividends from Apollo continue to be good, the PE ratio would he much better if they weren't involving the company in this boondoggle.† (source)dividends = earnings paid to stock shareholders
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'And you're gonna go down to Boston and spend some of that dividend yourself, you dirty dog,' Gary said.† (source)dividend = the amount of money paid as earnings for each share of stock (usually paid quarterly)
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And now it was paying its dividends.† (source)dividends = earnings paid to stock shareholders
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After the fair he intended to burn the building to collect the insurance and, as a happy dividend, destroy whatever surplus "material" might remain in its hidden storage chambers, although ideally, given other disposal measures available to him, the building by then would contain nothing of an incriminating nature.† (source)dividend = the amount of money paid as earnings for each share of stock (usually paid quarterly)
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A bit of interest and dividends from investments.† (source)dividends = earnings paid to stock shareholders
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You've got what I just offered you plus a dividend — I'll get you out of here alive if I have to leave two corpses here in the Bay, I don't care.† (source)dividend = the amount of money paid as earnings for each share of stock (usually paid quarterly)
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dividend, divisor & quotient in math
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As the dividend increases, the quotient increases.
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The divisor cannot be zero.divisor = a number by which another number is divided
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Sums, quotients, products.† (source)quotients = numbers by which other number are divided (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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In just over three years of law practice I had become one of those people for whom such small events could make a big difference in my joy quotient.† (source)quotient = the result of numerical division (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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Once in a while he'd come out with some hoary maxim, served up with a wry irony that did nothing to reduce the boredom quotient; or else he'd say, "I coulda been a contender," then glare meaningfully at the class as if there was some deeper-than-deep point they were all supposed to get.† (source)quotient = the result of numerical division (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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Patta beeboo divisor.† (source)divisor = a number by which another number is divided (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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We dealt with human quotients; they didn't.† (source)quotients = numbers by which other number are divided (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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It's also true of three, twenty-two, sixty-six, seventy—their divisors add up to a square.† (source)divisors = number by which other numbers are divided (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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My cultural sensitivity quotient was going to have to drastically increase if I was going to share a sleeping bag with Lara anytime soon.† (source)quotient = the result of numerical division (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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Patta beeboo divisor.† (source)divisor = a number by which another number is divided (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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As Langdon loaded his slide projector, he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence—a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equaled the next term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.618—PHI!† (source)quotients = numbers by which other number are divided (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never reached.† (source)divisors = number by which other numbers are divided (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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Given the choice between alternatives, Hardy will always go for making his characters more miserable, and rain has a higher wretchedness quotient than almost any other element of our environment.† (source)quotient = the result of numerical division (if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)
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Traditionally, this was what brought people to churches or other religious institutions, but any movement or humanitarian initiative can provide a sense of purpose that boosts one's happiness quotient.† (source)
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