Lexic.us

Definition of Bonus

1. Noun. Anything that tends to arouse. "His approval was an added fillip"

2. Noun. An additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output.

Definition of Bonus

1. 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.

Definition of Bonus

1. Noun. Something extra that is good ¹

2. Noun. An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee ¹

3. Noun. (basketball) When enough fouls have been accumulated that a team is awarded one or more free throws on any sort of foul ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To pay a bonus, premium ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bonus

1. an additional payment [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonus

bons vivants bonsai bonsais bonsella bonsellas bonser bonshtedtite bonsmots bonsoir bonspell

bonspells bonspiel bonspiels bontebok bonteboks bonus (current term) bonus-less bonus-point bonused bonuses

bonusing bonusless bonxie bonxies bony bony ankylosis bony crepitus bony fish bony heart bony labyrinth

Literary usage of Bonus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"Hart, says: For this and other reasons the city has not required the bonus. To 1st interrogatory. No; except taxes of the year 1882. To 2d interrogatory. ..."

2. The History and Problems of Organized Labor by Frank Tracy Carlton (1920)
"V. The bonus. Various bonus systems have been tried by different companies. ... A quality bonus is paid if all the work of a given period passes the ..."

3. Scientific Management and Railroads: Being Part of a Brief Submitted to the by Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1911)
"The bonus system is apt to do far more harm than good when it is applied ... Apprehension by labor of the bonus system when introduced except as a part of ..."

4. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer (1881)
"Such shares are generally called "bonus shares." and the issue of them is called " watering the capital." bonus shares have been issued by a considerable ..."

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