bonus dividend

noun [C] FINANCE, STOCK MARKET

Definition

› an amount of money given by a company to its shareholders in addition to the usual payments they receive from the profits the company makes: The bank will pay a bonus dividend of 7 cents a share.

(Definition of bonus dividend noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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