dividendとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/

名詞

dividend (複数形 dividends)

1. (finance) A pro rata payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (eg, quarterly または annually).
2. (arithmetic) A number or expression that is to be divided by another.

   In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.

3. (figuratively) Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)

   His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.

   • 2012, Cameron Haley, Retribution:

     That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.

   • 2014, Bobby Adair, Slow Burn: Dead Fire, Book 4::

     The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together.

   • 2016, Christina Stead, The Beauties and Furies, page 163:

     'Why not: you, Elvira, will shortly pay a dividend, that is, have a child.'

下位語

• (finance: pro rata payment): regular dividend, special dividend

派生語

• ex dividend

動詞

dividend (三人称単数 現在形 dividends, 現在分詞 dividending, 過去形および過去分詞形 dividended)

1. To pay out a dividend.
   • 1997, Shareholder Rights, Oppression and Good Faith (page 40)

     He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented the dividending of the shares in Hawker Holdings to the shareholders of Hawker Siddeley […]

   • 2007, Kevin K. Boeh, ‎Paul W. Beamish, Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases (page 324)

     Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 million dividended up to Blue Jay.

参考

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation