The Only Use of
dividend
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- It gained them no ground on BoneMan for the moment, but understanding the man would pay dividends soon enough.†
Chpt 34dividends = earnings paid to stock shareholders
Definitions:
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(1)
(dividend as in: dividend paid by stock) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders
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(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)