boni

See also: Boni

English

Noun

boni

1. (nonstandard) plural of bonus
   • c. 1997, ASTIN Bulletin, page 48:

     The existence of boni and mali for the different risks can be interpreted through the sign of estimated covariances.

   • 2000, “Part IV. Asymmetric Information: Empirical Analysis”, in Georges Dionne, editor, Handbook of Insurance, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, “14. Experience Rating through Heterogeneous Models”, “2. Tariff Structures and Experience Rating Schemes in the Insurance Industry”, page 462:

     The optimal bonus-malus systems described in this paper compute coefficients which are equal to one on average whatever are the rating factors. This fairness property is not fulfilled by bonus-malus systems such as the French one. If the boni and mali do not depend on the frequency of claims, the average bonus-malus coefficient increases with the frequency.

   • 2003 December 14, Michael Price, “’Tis the Fifteenth Season”, in The Simpsons, season 15, episode 7, spoken by Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer):

     All right, everyone. It’s time for your Christmas boni. Everyone gets a five-dollar cafeteria voucher.

   • 2012, Fan Wu, “Appendix 6: Experimental instructions of career perspective: Ex_Ante_ Offer treatment”, in Birgitta Wolff, editor, Implicit Incentives in International Joint Ventures: An Experimental Study, Gabler Verlag, “Step 1 – the Investors offer boni”, page 207:

     The Manager will see how much bonus each investor has offered. At the end of the round, the Manager receives the greater of the two boni.

   • 2014, Akmal Akramkhanov, Bernhard Tischbein, Usman Khalid Awan, “Effective management of soil salinity – revising leaching norms”, in John P. A. Lamers, Asia Khamzina, Inna Rudenko, Paul L. G. Vlek, editors, Restructuring Land Allocation, Water Use and Agricultural Value Chains: Technologies, Policies and Practices for the Lower Amudarya Region, V & R unipress, Bonn University Press, →ISBN, page 131:

     Akramkhanov et al. (2010) also suggested a system of boni and mali on taxes to support the implementation of measures to achieve both water saving and salinity control (Table 3.3.1).

   • 2017, Kunibert Raffer, “5. Greece: An EU-Inflicted Catastrophe”, in Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Kunibert Raffer, editors, Sovereign Debt Crises: What Have We Learned?, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     Adding the FT’s analysis of the Greek slave economy one cannot but conclude that Greece was made to suffer to save bankers’ boni, while duping real payers (taxpayers in ‘rescuing’ countries), claiming everything would be repaid.

Anagrams

• BION, bino, bion

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈboni]
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• Rhymes: -oni
• Hyphenation: bo‧ni

Verb

boni (present bonas, past bonis, future bonos, conditional bonus, volitive bonu)

1. (intransitive) to be good

Conjugation

Conjugation of boni present past future singular plural singular plural singular plural tense bonas bonis bonos active participle bonanta bonantaj boninta bonintaj bononta bonontaj acc. bonantan bonantajn bonintan bonintajn bonontan bonontajn nominal active participle bonanto bonantoj boninto bonintoj bononto bonontoj acc. bonanton bonantojn boninton bonintojn bononton bonontojn adverbial active participle bonante boninte bononte infinitive boni imperative bonu conditional bonus

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

boni

1. profit

Further reading

• “boni”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

boni

1. masculine plural of bono

Anagrams

• bino, binò

Latin

Adjective

bonī

1. inflection of bonus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Noun

bonī

1. inflection of bonus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

References

• boni in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Maranao

Noun

boni

1. sound

Derived terms

• boniboniyan (“musical instrument; music”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.nɪ/

Noun

boni n

1. definite plural of bån
   • 1890, Jørund Telnes, Netar [Nights], Kristiania, page 53:

     „Mat!“ ropar Boni og tuttrar og græt.

     "Food!" cry the children, whining and weeping.

   • 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af Landsmaalet i Norge, Christiania: Carl C. Werner & Comp., page 55:

     Bon'i deires va ſtore, aa dei eldſte va vakſne jamvæl

     Their children were big, the eldest even were grownups.

Venetian

Adjective

boni

1. masculine plural of bon