dividend

See also: Dividend

English

Etymology

From Middle French dividende, from Latin dividendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of divido (“to divide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/

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Noun

dividend (plural dividends)

1. (finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).
2. (arithmetic) A number or expression that is to be divided by another.

   In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.

3. (figuratively) Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)

   His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.

   • 2012, Cameron Haley, Retribution:

     That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.

   • 2014, Bobby Adair, Slow Burn: Dead Fire, Book 4::

     The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together.

   • 2016, Christina Stead, The Beauties and Furies, page 163:

     'Why not: you, Elvira, will shortly pay a dividend, that is, have a child.'

Hyponyms

• (finance: pro rata payment): regular dividend, special dividend

Derived terms

• cum dividend
• demographic dividend
• dividend equalisation reserve
• dividend reinvestment plan
• dividend reinvestment program
• dividend stripping
• ex dividend
• pay dividends
• peace dividend

 

Translations

arithmetic: a number or expression

• Arabic: مَقْسُوم‎ m (maqsūm)
• Armenian: բաժանելի (hy) (bažaneli)
• Bulgarian: дели́мо (bg) n (delímo)
• Catalan: dividend m
• Cebuano: bahinon
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被除數／被除数 (zh) (bèichúshù)

• Czech: dělenec m
• Dutch: deeltal (nl) n
• Finnish: jaettava (fi)
• French: dividende (fr) m
• Georgian: გასაყოფი (gasaq̇opi)
• German: Dividend (de) m
• Greek: διαιρετέος (el) m (diairetéos)
• Hungarian: osztandó (hu)
• Icelandic: deilistofn m
• Italian: dividendo (it) m
• Japanese: 被除数 (ひじょすう, hijosū)
• Korean: 피제수(被除數) (pijesu)
• Kyrgyz: бөлүнүүчү (ky) (bölünüüçü)
• Macedonian: деленик m (delenik)
• Persian: مقسوم‎ (fa) (maqsum), بخش‎ (fa) (baxš), بخشیده‎ (fa) (baxšide)
• Polish: dzielna (pl) f
• Portuguese: dividendo (pt) m
• Romanian: deîmpărțit (ro) n
• Russian: дели́мое (ru) n (delímoje)
• Serbo-Croatian: djeljenik (sh) m
• Spanish: dividendo (es) m
• Swedish: dividend (sv) c
• Tagalog: hatiin
• Turkish: bölünen (tr)

finance: a payment of money by a company to its shareholders

• Arabic: حِصَّة‎ f (ḥiṣṣa)
• Armenian: շահաբաժին (hy) (šahabažin)
• Basque: dibidendu
• Bulgarian: дивидент (bg) m (divident)
• Catalan: dividend m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 股息 (zh) (gǔxī), 紅利／红利 (zh) (hónglì)

• Czech: dividenda (cs) f, podíl na zisku, poměrný díl ze zisku
• Danish: udbytte n
• Dutch: dividend (nl) n
• Esperanto: dividendo (eo)
• Estonian: dividend (et)
• Finnish: osinko (fi), (in bankruptcies) jako-osuus
• French: dividende (fr) m
• German: Dividende (de) f
• Greek: μέρισμα (el) n (mérisma)
• Hungarian: osztalék (hu)
• Icelandic: arður (is) m
• Indonesian: dividen (id)
• Italian: dividendo (it) m
• Japanese: 配当 (ja) (はいとう, haitō)
• Kazakh: дивиденд (dividend)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utbytte (no) n

  Nynorsk: utbytte n, utbyte n

• Persian: سود سهام‎ (sud-e sahâm)
• Polish: dywidenda (pl) f
• Portuguese: dividendo (pt) m
• Russian: дивиде́нд (ru) m (dividénd)
• Serbo-Croatian: dividenda (sh) f
• Spanish: dividendo (es) m
• Swedish: utdelning (sv) c, (in Finland) dividend (sv) c, återbäring (sv) c
• Turkish: kâr payı (tr)
• Yiddish: דיווידענד‎ m (dividend)

beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)

• Czech: plody m pl
• Hungarian: haszon (hu), előny (hu), gyümölcs (hu)

Verb

dividend (third-person singular simple present dividends, present participle dividending, simple past and past participle dividended)

1. To pay out a dividend.
   • 1997, Shareholder Rights, Oppression and Good Faith, page 40:

     He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented the dividending of the shares in Hawker Holdings to the shareholders of Hawker Siddeley […]

   • 2007, Kevin K. Boeh; Paul W. Beamish, Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases, page 324:

     Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 million dividended up to Blue Jay.

See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

• successor
• addition, summation:

  (augend) + (addend) = (total)

  (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)

• subtraction:

  (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)

• multiplication, factorization:

  (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)

  (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)

• division:

  (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)

  (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)

  Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining

• exponentiation:

  (base) ^(exponent) = (power)

• root extraction:

  ^(degree) √ (radicand) = (root)

• logarithmization:

  log_(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

Catalan

Noun

dividend m (plural dividends)

1. (arithmetic) dividend
2. (finance) dividend

Related terms

• dividir

Further reading

• “dividend” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Etymology

From French dividende.

Noun

dividend n (plural dividende)

1. dividend

Declension

Declension of dividend

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) dividend	dividendul	(niște) dividende	dividendele
genitive/dative	(unui) dividend	dividendului	(unor) dividende	dividendelor
vocative	dividendule		dividendelor

Swedish

Noun

dividend c

1. (arithmetic) dividend
2. (finance, Finland) dividend

Declension

Declension of dividend
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dividend	dividenden	dividender	dividenderna
Genitive	dividends	dividendens	dividenders	dividendernas

Synonyms

• (finance): utdelning