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   div·i·dend

   /ˈdivəˌdend/

   noun

   • 1. a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).
   • ▪ a payment divided among a number of people, e.g., members of a cooperative or creditors of an insolvent estate.
   • ▪ an individual's share of a dividend. Similar shareportionpercentagepremiumreturnpaybackgainsurplusprofitinformal:cuttakerake-offdivvywhackslice of the cakepiece of the actionpickings
   • ▪ a benefit from an action or policy: "persistence pays dividends" Similar benefitadvantagegainbonusextraadded extraplusfringe benefitadditional benefitinformal:perkformal:perquisiteOpposite disadvantage
   • 2. a number to be divided by another number.

   Word Origin late 15th century (in the general sense ‘portion, share’): from Anglo-Norman French dividende, from Latin dividendum ‘something to be divided’, from the verb dividere (see divide).

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