Both Uses of
dividend
in
Atlas Shrugged
- All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.†
Chpt 2.6dividends = earnings paid to stock shareholders
- wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits and so forth will be frozen on the date of the directive.†
Chpt 2.6 *
Definitions:
-
(1)
(dividend as in: dividend paid by stock) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders
-
(2)
(dividend, divisor & quotient in math) an amount to be divided
(if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)