Thesaurus results for DIVIDENDS

dividends

noun

plural of dividend

as in bonuses

something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed the reward money was an unexpected dividend for our good deed

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Recent Examples of dividends Given the sheer number of stocks offering dividends, identifying the right ones is not always straightforward. —

Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 10 May 2026 Ford has lost a little of its income shine; a short run of annual special dividends ended this year. —

Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026 Investors have pressured companies to spit money out in dividends and stock buybacks instead of chasing ever-more oil production, and companies have been happy to oblige. —

Camila Domonoske, NPR, 7 May 2026 The arrangements paid dividends for Miles Gunty. —

Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 7 May 2026 Not a dollar of his stock holdings, dividends or investment gains figures into what the Social Security Administration sends him each month. —

Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026 The growth across the board has paid dividends. —

Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026 The latest results arrive as the future of the war and its dividends so far remain uncertain. —

Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026 The height in Newcastle’s line-up paid early dividends through Will Osula and Dan Burn headers inside 25 minutes, putting the hosts 2-0 up. —

Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 4 May 2026

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The company’s board cited successful passage of Senate Bill 371, which lowered Uber’s accident liability for underinsured drivers, as a major reason for awarding two Uber executives annual bonuses of more than $1 million last year.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
And, to be clear, none of the $625,000 in bonuses – which represent only a small fraction of the Estate's expenses for the period in question - were paid to the executors, and the court did not in any way say that the executors had made any inappropriate payments to themselves.

— Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026