Dividends [noun]
Definition of Dividends:
one's share, profit
Synonyms of Dividends:
● Premium
● Surplus
● Bonus
● Coupon
● Gain
● Reward
● Proceeds
● Gravy
● Cut
● Prize
● Extra
● Taste
● Pay
● Divvy
● Portion
● Guerdon
● Interest
● Check
● Carrot
● Returns
● Meed
Sentence/Example of Dividends:
This expectation of high dividends, I need hardly say, has not been realised, and the Act in this respect has been a dead letter.
Dividends must be distributed among the stockholders without unjust discrimination.
In pledging stock it is a common practice to declare that the pledgee shall be entitled to the dividends that are declared.
Dividends that are declared after a grant or bequest, though earned before, go to the legatee as income.
Again, a somewhat different rule applies to stock dividends.
Passing from the action of directors in declaring dividends, the wrongs done by corporations may be stated.
They cannot withhold dividends in order to depress the value of the property and buy its stock at a lower price.
The dividends were held to be accretions to the capital, and the income only was payable to the daughter for life.
He had gone over his uncle's papers, and knew exactly what he was worth, and when his dividends and rents were due.
He told me yesterday they had more money than they could lend and that the banks were cutting down their dividends.