(n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
(n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
(n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
(2) It takes more than a statistical read out and the return of big bank bonuses for a real recovery," he said.
(3) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
(4) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(5) Lord Mandelson told bankers today that the one-off tax that will be imposed on their bonuses in today's pre-budget report was not designed to "teach them a lesson".
(6) If a bank does not meet the commitment, its chief executive and senior managers responsible for business lending will not receive the maximum pay and bonus as a result."
(7) The commission heard that the bonus culture had grown from the 1980s and that professionalism had been lost from the industry.
(8) An added bonus: With acceptance comes team building.
(9) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
(10) Excellent question -- is the absence of a bonus for M&S's 80,000+ staff a "failure of leadership"?
(11) In 2007, his £450,000 LTIP, combined with basic salary and bonus, left him £1.2m better off - and with nearly double the then salary of the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson.
(12) Until the October 2008 banking crisis there were no restrictions on the way bankers were paid, but rules were devised to try to link payouts to performance when it emerged that banks would still pay bonuses despite receiving taxpayer bailouts.
(13) The key point is that the G20 principles do not place any cap on the size of bonuses.
(14) Belinda Lester, from the employment law firm CKFT, agreed: "If they have a bad year, it's very difficult to cut back salaries"; the second big plus from the bank's point of view is "if a significant part of your remuneration is a bonus, these contracts will make it very clear that bonus is only payable if you're not leaving.
(15) The staff bonus pool at J Sainsbury has fallen by a quarter, despite the supermarket chain posting higher sales and profits for the last financial year.
(16) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
(17) Just a few days before its annual results, the bank is ready to tell staff how much they will be getting and outline new payments to top staff who will be affected by the EU's bonus cap.
(18) Griffith earned £1.05m, including a bonus of £548,500, worth 113% of his salary and just short of the 125% maximum.
(19) HSBC and Standard Chartered, two UK-based banks who often manage to avoid the bonus spotlight, will also feel the heat after paying out millions to US regulators for breaches of the rules.
(20) Yet bank bonuses soared in April as payments were delayed so the highest paid could benefit from this government's top rate tax cut.
Donation
Definition:
(n.) The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
(n.) That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.
(n.) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
(2) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(3) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
(4) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Enzyme-inhibiting ability for individual alkylphenols can be estimated based on the quantitative structure-activity relationship developed by Dewhirst (1980) and is a function of the free hydroxyl group, electron-donating ring substituents, and hydrophobic aromatic ring substituents.
(7) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(8) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
(9) A comparison of the qualification of first time homologous and directed donations showed in our groups significant differences for HBsAg positivity, ESR and hemoglobin.
(10) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
(11) The headline controversy is that, for the first time, following changes to the regulations, women can be paid for donation.
(12) To see whether the issue of AIDS has influenced the observed decline in blood donation in Scotland.
(13) In contrast, none of 16 women who had reached menopause and only two of 21 men required oral absorption of dietary or prescribed iron for the amount of blood iron donated.
(14) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(15) Activity was insensitive to oxygen and CO if the substrates had no additional substituents on either ring or contained only electron-donating substituents.
(16) We infer that a 5' cap is present on both of these RNAs and conclude that the mini-exon-derived RNA donates its 5' cap along with the mini-exon sequence to the pre-mRNA.
(17) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
(18) Other health spending includes $10.2m to improve organ and tissue donation and transplantation rates.
(19) The San Antonio Food Bank says donations are up 16% But because of the cuts to Snap the supplies disappear faster.
(20) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.