(n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.
(n.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(2) It’s an additional income but it’s also a financial safeguard.” Rosby Mthinda, who has worked with Dohse for more than a decade and now trains collectors in her role as field assistant, says the baobab trade is paying dividends for people and the environment.
(3) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
(4) Prior planning of the coverage before the excision pays dividends by preventing disastrous complications.
(5) Arguably the national interest would have been better served if some of that dividend cash had been diverted to research that would produce new technologies, and new jobs, 10 years from now.
(6) Sydney defender Jacques Faty constantly seems a defensive accident waiting to happen, while the club are yet to reap full dividend from their attacking imports at the other end of the field.
(7) BHS shareholders led by Green, and the billionaire’s family, withdrew more than £580m in dividends , rental payments and interest on loans from the failed department store chain before he sold it for £1 in March 2015.
(8) ActionAid in response notes that dividends paid directly from Zambia to South Africa are taxed in Zambia at 15%, a tax which this structure avoids.
(9) The real dividend comes over a longer period of time.
(10) The increase in banks' costs and capital requirements will also have a knock-on effect on economic growth, reduce dividends for UK pension funds and could promote heavier risk-taking within the banks," Davies said.
(11) In practice, there are now two or three classes of shareholders, and the only ones that ought to have the privileges of dividends and decision-making about the future of the companies they are said to own ought to be those that hold on to your shares for the longer term.
(12) He added that a sign that the underlying business had performed well in the tough climate was its delivery of a significantly higher dividend of £68.8m – compared with £49.4m – to the BBC.
(13) The Bank of England sends a clear message to banks today to cut staff bonuses and share dividends so that they can bolster their capital cushions while maintaining lending to businesses and households.
(14) That was the only reason he came to his decision," Forsey said, adding that only the Sports Direct's board would decide when it is appropriate to pay a dividend.
(15) Under the deal BP is expected take a stake of more than 15% in Rosneft plus more than $15bn in cash, part of which may be distributed as a special dividend.
(16) At most companies offering 6%, the dividend is under threat or going sideways.
(17) BP revealed on Tuesday that it made $1.6bn (£950m) from its interest in Rosneft in the first six months of 2014, on top of a $700m dividend from Rosneft in July.
(18) In his paper, Where is the peace dividend?, Knox contrasts the quality of life in the poorest areas, using the devolved Belfast government’s category of neighbourhood renewal areas (NRAs), with those that are not deemed to be in need of major socio-economic investment.
(19) On other occasions, attempts to persuade Sir Philip to contemplate the impact of withdrawing £400m in dividends soon after buying the high street chain also failed.
(20) Ben Olsen brought several young players through at the end of that debacle and it seems to have paid dividends as they are only a point behind Sporting at the top of the East, with a game in hand.
Remainder
Definition:
(n.) Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.
(n.) The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction.
(n.) An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder.
(a.) Remaining; left; left over; refuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
(2) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
(3) The remainder of the plasmid appeared to be associated with five positioned nucleosomes and two nonnucleosomal, partially protected regions on the bulk of the molecules.
(4) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(5) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(6) The time to first dose of opioid in the remainder was greatly increased.
(7) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
(8) The remainder of the anticancer chemotherapeutic agents abolished the NNPG activation of guanylate cyclase 40--70%.
(9) A further 12% had oligoclonal immunoglobulins and the remainder had no qualitative abnormality of the immunoglobulin profile.
(10) with half given as an intravenous bolus and the remainder administered subcutaneously.
(11) The remainder of immunoreactive alpha-MSH coeluted with synthetic alpha-MSH, desacetyl alpha-MSH, or their methionine sulfoxides.
(12) Cerebral blood flow was in the low normal range throughout the remainder of the brain.
(13) Of the excess SCPK, 77% was BB isoenzyme; the remainder was mainly MM with traces of MB.
(14) At different times after starting feeding or injection, tissues (albumen gland, digestive gland and digestive tube, central nervous system, remainder parts), hemolymph and faeces were analyzed for unchanged 2,2'- or 4,4'-DCB.
(15) People who have already been infected by AIDS are primarily members of high risk groups in which the disease spreads at least 10 times and more likely 100 times more rapidly than in the remainder of the population.
(16) Radical resection or local excision combined with pelvic radiation therapy may be more appropriate for the remainder of early cancers.
(17) The remainder of the cells stained with the C-terminally directed antibodies only.
(18) However, that difference was no longer apparent during the remainder of the study.
(19) In the remainder of the skeleton, hip dysplasia with premature osteoarthritis, knee joint bony ankylosis and thoracic and thoraco-lumbar scoliosis are other undescribed findings.
(20) At each restriction site, a fraction of the chromosomes is cut rapidly after which the remainder is refractory.