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Meaning of bonus in English

bonus
noun [ C ]
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/ˈbəʊ.nəs/ us
/ˈboʊ.nəs/
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an extra amount of money that is given to you as a present or reward for good work as well as the money you were expecting:
a productivity bonus
a Christmas bonus
The company used to give discretionary bonus payments.
B2
a pleasant extra thing:
I love the job, and it's an added bonus that it's so close to home.
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(Definition of bonus from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

bonus | American Dictionary

bonus
noun [ C ]
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/ˈboʊ·nəs/
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an extra amount of money given to someone as a reward for work or as encouragement:
The salary was $40,000, plus a bonus.
A bonus is also any result that is an unexpected benefit:
After the heart transplant, every day is a bonus for me.
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bonus | Business English

bonus
noun [ C ]
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/ˈbəʊnəs/ us
plural bonuses
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WORKPLACE
an amount of money given to an employee in addition to their salary as a reward for working well:
a bonus of €1000/£500, etc. She received a bonus of $15,065, equal to 40% of her salary.
earn/get/receive a bonus Teachers can earn an annual bonus of $1,026 if they meet the goals.
pay (sb) a bonus Bank bosses are still being paid huge bonuses.
a Christmas bonus
a bonus award/payment/scheme
FINANCE
an amount of money or shares given by a company to its shareholders:
Investors are set to receive a bonus of at least £1.50 a share.
INSURANCE
a payment made to the customers of an insurance company out of its profits:
Annual bonus rates on some life policies have fallen recently.
See also
acceptance bonus
attendance bonus
capital bonus
loyalty bonus
performance bonus
productivity bonus
retention bonus
signing bonus
terminal bonus
(Definition of bonus from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bonus

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Supplementary bonuses could also be paid to certain close relatives of acceptors in an effort to gain their support.
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Younger couples should receive larger bonuses than older couples because they ordinarily have higher fertility rates and fewer children.
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Each participant was paid approximately $10 per hour, with incentive bonuses for timely completion.
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Pragmatically, if subsidies are acceptable, bonuses that are 'excess' subsidies should be acceptable too.
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Any government that offers bonuses wishes to ensure that it is in fact obtaining the fertility reductions for which it is ostensibly paying.
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The basic idea of compensating with bonuses those women and men who practise birth control is obvious enough.
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Here it is supposed, for simplicity, that family planning bonuses are only paid for remaining non-pregnant.
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One argument for high initial bonuses is that the very gaining of acceptors will permit lower bonuses to be equally effective later.
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On average, 1-0 million women are assumed to register and receive bonuses.
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If bonuses are to be used to make a family planning programme more effective, it is necessary to define 'effective'.
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Thus, we compute a proxy for the number of periods of service of public workers in activities with special bonuses.
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Eleven $1,000 bonuses were offered to the group within each county that had the best flu immunization rates, as documented by administrative claims data.
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They also believed that bonuses could improve the quality of health care but that they also give incentives to use more expensive prescriptions.
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Even among vigorous proponents of family planning there are many who oppose the use of bonuses.
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Governments should attempt not to pay large bonuses to women and men who would practise birth control even if offered only small bonuses.
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annual bonus
The annual bonus is calculated on the basis of the number of months worked in the factory.
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big bonus
Yes (workload increased) % but there's more satisfaction when you feel your offering something at last to the school % family % it's a big bonus.
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bonus content
In it, the player was tasked with defeating specific characters as a means to unlock bonus content.
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奬金, 花紅, 紅利…
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बोनस, जादा पगार - चांगल्या कामानिमित्त भेट, बक्षीस किंवा अपेक्षेपेक्षा अधिक पैसे देणे…
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ボーナス, 特別賞与, （嬉しい）おまけ…
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ikramiye, kâr payı, prim…
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bonificació, avantatge extra…
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நல்ல வேலைக்கான பரிசாக அல்லது வெகுமதியாக உங்களுக்கு வழங்கப்படும் கூடுதல் தொகை மற்றும் நீங்கள் எதிர்பார்த்த பணம், ஒரு இனிமையான கூடுதல் விஷயம்…
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बोनस पारितोषिक, प्रोत्साहन-राशि (अच्छे काम के लिये उपहार या पुरस्कार के रूप में दी जाने वाली या किसी विशेष अवसर पर प्रत्याशित अतिरिक्त धनराशि), एक आनंददायक अतिरिक्त लाभ…
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عِلاوة, شَيء إضافيّ…
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বোনাস, ভাতা, অতিরিক্ত পরিমাণ অর্থ যা আপনাকে উপহার হিসাবে বা ভাল কাজের জন্য পুরস্কার হিসাবে দেওয়া হয়…
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premia, (dodatkowa ) korzyść, naddatek…
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