Definition of Dividends

1. Noun. (plural of dividend) ¹

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Definition of Dividends

1. dividend [n] - See also: dividend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dividends

divide up
divided
divided dose
divided highway
divided spectacles
divided up
dividedly
dividedness
dividednesses
dividence
dividences
dividend
dividend equilisation reserve
dividend warrant
dividendless
dividends (current term)
divident
dividents
divider
dividers
divides
divideth
dividing
dividing(a)
dividing line
dividingly
dividings
dividivi
dividivis
dividual

Literary usage of Dividends

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 (1885)
"Much more, if dividends are not income before they are payable, are they not income before they are declared Î I repeat, then, the taxes in controversy now ..."

2. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"Analogous provisions: In US: As to first and subsequent dividends, ... Cross-references: To the law: Referees to declare dividends and to prepare and ..."

3. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1914)
"UNCLAIMED dividends. § 66. Unclaimed dividends.—a dividends which remain unclaimed for six months after the final dividend has been declared shall be paid ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"An Annuity granted by the husband out of the dividends, to which he was entitled for life, the trustees giving a power of attorney to receive the dividends, ..."

5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1850)
"The dividends are paid semi-annually, in October and April. ... We now subjoin a statement of the semi annual dividends declared and payable on the first of ..."

6. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"Party entitled to dividends where Stock has been fraudulently transferred. 1. ... One who buys stock in faith of the dividends, but subsequent buna fide ..."

7. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"them as special dividends.50 In 1919 the United States government forced the packing ... The whole subject of stock and security dividends has assumed a new ..."

8. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"How dividends May Be Used.— Having explained the sources of the surplus, and the methods of ascertaining and apportioning it, we may next pass to a ..."

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