dividend

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: div=i=dend

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dividend, n.
1 a a sum of money to be divided among a number of persons, esp. that paid by a company to shareholders. b a similar sum payable to winners in a football pool, to members of a cooperative, or to creditors of an insolvent estate. c an individual's share of a dividend.
2 Math. a number to be divided by a divisor.
3 a benefit from any action (their long training paid dividends).

Idiom

dividend stripping the evasion of tax on dividends by arrangement between the company liable to pay tax and another able to claim repayment of tax. dividend warrant Brit. the documentary authority for a shareholder to receive a dividend. dividend yield a dividend expressed as a percentage of a current share price.

Etymology

AF dividende f. L dividendum (as DIVIDE)

THESAURUS

dividend

accrued dividends, accumulated dividends, allotment, allowance, avails, balance, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, bonus, box office, budget, capital gains, carrot, cash dividend, chunk, cleanup, clear profit, commission, commissions, contingent, credit, credits, cumulative dividend, cut, deal, destiny, disposable income, dividends, dole, earned income, earnings, end, equal share, extra, extra dividend, fate, filthy lucre, gain, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gettings, gleanings, gratuity, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, guerdon, half, halver, helping, hoard, income, intake, interest, interim dividend, killing, lagniappe, leftover, lot, lucre, make, makings, margin, measure, meed, melon, mess, modicum, moiety, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, optional dividend, output, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, paper profits, part, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, phony dividend, pickings, piece, plum, plus, portion, pourboire, premium, prize, proceeds, produce, profit, profits, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, ration, receipt, receipts, receivables, regular dividend, remainder, return, returns, revenue, royalties, royalty, segment, share, slice, small share, something extra, spare, special dividend, stake, stock, stock dividend, store, surplus, surplusage, take, take-in, takings, tip, unearned income, wealth, winnings, yield

ROGET THESAURUS

dividend

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Number

N number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent, numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible, numerically, modulo.

Apportionment

N apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment, appointment, appropriation, dispensation, distribution, division, deal, repartition, partition, administration, dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose, dole, meed, pittance, quantum, ration, ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance, suerte, apportioning, respective, respectively, each to each.