dividendn.

/ˈdɪvɪdənd/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s dividente, divident.

Etymology: < French dividende, in sense 4 (1300 in Anglo-Norman), < Latin dīvidendum (that) which is to be divided, absolute use of neuter gerundive of dīvidĕre to divide v. In early use often in the forms dividente, divident (-end being an unusual, and -ent a well-known ending), but in 17th cent. conformed to the Latin type. (The sense development is not clear, senses 3, 4 being the earliest found.)

1. Mathematics. A number or quantity which is to be divided by another. (Correlative to divisor n.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > divisor or dividend

divisorc1430

particular numbera1464

dividend1543

divident?a1560

subdivident1581

dividual1704

divider1797

α.

1543 R. Record Ground of Artes ii. sig. S.iii^v Then begynne I at the hyghest lyne of the diuident, and seke how often I may haue the diuisor therin.

1608 R. Norton tr. S. Stevin Disme: Art of Tenths sig. Bij The number to be diuided (or diuident) and the number to diuide (or diuisor).

β. 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Zi I see noe soche denomination in the diuidende.1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. v. f. 7^v ^{The diuidend. 487.}/ _{The diuisor. 53.} (9 the quotient.)a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 31 Proceed as before to the end of the Dividend.1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 16 The usual manner of placing the terms, is, the dividend in the middle, having the divisor on the left hand, and the quotient on the right, each separated by a curve line.c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 437/1.

2. A sum of money to be divided among a number of persons; esp. the total sum payable as interest on a loan, or as the profit of a joint-stock company, divided periodically among the holders (usually reckoned at a certain rate per cent.); also, the sum divided among the creditors of an insolvent estate. to declare a dividend: declare v. 5d.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit to be shared

dividend1623

melon1909

1623 W. Sclater Quæstion of Tythes 152 Will you mooue doubt whether Tithes entered the common Diuidend?

1643 J. Milton Soveraigne Salve 11 Profits and emoluments accrewing may make a dividend sufficient to draw to some unjust act.

1684 London Gaz. No. 1948/4 The Creditors of Benjamin Hinton..are desired to meet..to receive an Accompt of their Trustees, and to advise of a Divident.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4744/3 Warrants for the said Dividend will be delivered.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 387 For some years past the bank dividend has been at five and a half per cent.

1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. x. 286 Two fifths of these profits form a fund, from which the annual dividend on capital is paid.

3. transferred. A portion or share of anything divided; esp. the share (of anything divided among a number of persons) that falls to each to receive or pay.

†a. gen. Obsolete except as figurative from b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > portion of anything divided

dividend1477

canta1542

fee1573

cantoning1625

dividual1668

α.

1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy vi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 97 Another Furnace..serving for Seperation of dividents.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments v. sig. fff.iii/1 The Kinges Subsidye..is committed vnto me in the Kings roule a whole sum in grosse, to bee receaued of the Canons residentiaries for their diuident, who..cannot agree in diuiding.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 156/2 What portions or diuidentes ought to be made therof.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 81 Security the last deuident of Delicacy, it [sloth] includeth in it.

1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 108 Which otherwise rested upon the Priest or Clerks or that Church to do from the allotted divident.

β. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiii. xlvi. 850 The financies and revenues..were shared out in dividends between some certaine of the head citizens.1670 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 28 Divided all things equally..the Boys Dividend being as large as my own.1779 S. Johnson Waller in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 104 The Panegyrick upon Cromwell has obtained..a very liberal dividend of praise.1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 260 What proportional dividend of man is a Staymaker?

b. spec. The portion of interest on a loan, or profit from a joint-stock company, received by an individual holder as his share; the amount received by an individual creditor from an insolvent estate. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit to be shared > share of profits > received by individual

dividend1690

1690 London Gaz. No. 2596/4 Sir Edward Dering Deputy-Governor of the Hudsons Bay Company..Presented to his Majesty a Dividend in Gold, upon His Stock in the said Company.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 337 A testatrix gave to trustees certain bank stock, upon trust to pay the dividends to her daughter M. for life.

1884 A. H. D. Acland & B. Jones Working Men Co-operators iii. 32 It is on the amount of her purchases at the shop that her dividend or share of profits is declared.

1965 Listener 16 Sept. 402/2 Nothing in fact will pay better dividends in the long run than a determined effort to discover what is actually going on in the Health Service.

†4. The action of dividing among a number of persons; distribution (esp. of profits, or assets.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > dividing and sharing out

partingc1330

departinga1340

divisionc1380

partition1429

departison1444

dividentc1450

skiftingc1450

partage1484

portiona1513

departition?c1530

dividend1535

portioning1556

reparting1574

repartment1574

parcery1582

sharing1598

apportion1628

compartition1636

department1677

dividing1719

whacking1851

partitionment1864

divide1873

share-out1877

whack1885

sharesies1916

carve-up1935

1300 Act 28 Edw. I Super Cartas ii, Et des choses issint par eus prises..soit faite dividende entre les prenours & les gardeins des feires.]

α. 1535 H. Latimer Fruitf. Serm. i. Eph. vi. 10 By these meanes a diuident [1635 devision] of the spoyle was made.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fi^v/2 A Diuident, diuidentia.1634 in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 126/2 The divident of corne is managed according to the ancient custome.β. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 265 Paying the debts and making dividend of the overplus into the reasonable parts.1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. ix. 159 It was the saying of Socrates, that if there were a common bank made of all mens troubles, most men would rather chuse to take those they brought, then to venter upon a new dividend.1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 292 So we resolv'd to steer for Zant..and there make Dividend of our Prize-Money and Goods.

Compounds

dividend-stripper n.

ΚΠ

1958 Punch 25 June 839/2 What Odhams and the Daily Herald had done was not indeed exactly the same as what the dividend-strippers had done, and Mr Houghton may have been right in saying that the object of that exercise was not to avoid taxation.

dividend-stripping n. (see quot. 1959); hence .

ΚΠ

1958 Times 22 Apr. 10/3 Nothing in the Budget created more concern among many Conservative backbenchers than the retrospective effect of the proposal by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make the tax evading practice of ‘dividend stripping’ illegal—with effect from October, 1955.

1959 Times 8 Apr. 17/2 Dividend-stripping (which is essentially a finance company operation for offsetting a dealing loss against tax reclaimed from dividends accumulated by the company which is the subject of the deal) was stopped some time ago.

dividend time n.

ΚΠ

1860 All Year Round 5 May 88 He might be seen at the Bank of England about Dividend times.

dividend warrant n. the documentary order or authority on which a shareholder receives his dividend.

ΚΠ

1716 London Gaz. No. 5479/4 Lost..a Dividend Warrant on the South Sea Company.

1884 Harper's Mag. May 897/2 The dividend warrants are sent..by post.

Draft additions 1993

A share in the payout from a football or other pool, received by a winner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > of booty, spoils, or profits > of (football) pool

dividend1929

1929 People 13 Oct. 18/1 (advt.) Our Pools pay the following dividends for Saturday, 5th October.

1937 E. Johnstone Profit from Football Pools i. 1 The difference, between the support given to football and racing pools, shows that something, more than the chances of winning big dividends, adds to the attraction of this form of weekend competition.

1952 Times 16 May 7/5 The winning of dividends in the football pools follows exactly the pattern of random selection.

1986 Financial Times 1 May 1/1 A syndicate of 11 Wiltshire hospital staff shared a £1,017,890 football pool dividend, believed to be a record.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dividend
释义	dividendn. /ˈdɪvɪdənd/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s dividente, divident. Etymology: < French dividende, in sense 4 (1300 in Anglo-Norman), < Latin dīvidendum (that) which is to be divided, absolute use of neuter gerundive of dīvidĕre to divide v. In early use often in the forms dividente, divident (-end being an unusual, and -ent a well-known ending), but in 17th cent. conformed to the Latin type. (The sense development is not clear, senses 3, 4 being the earliest found.) 1. Mathematics. A number or quantity which is to be divided by another. (Correlative to divisor n.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > divisor or dividend divisorc1430 particular numbera1464 dividend1543 divident?a1560 subdivident1581 dividual1704 divider1797 α. 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes ii. sig. S.iii^v Then begynne I at the hyghest lyne of the diuident, and seke how often I may haue the diuisor therin. 1608 R. Norton tr. S. Stevin Disme: Art of Tenths sig. Bij The number to be diuided (or diuident) and the number to diuide (or diuisor). β. 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Zi I see noe soche denomination in the diuidende.1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. v. f. 7^v ^{The diuidend. 487.}/ _{The diuisor. 53.} (9 the quotient.)a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 31 Proceed as before to the end of the Dividend.1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 16 The usual manner of placing the terms, is, the dividend in the middle, having the divisor on the left hand, and the quotient on the right, each separated by a curve line.c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 437/1. 2. A sum of money to be divided among a number of persons; esp. the total sum payable as interest on a loan, or as the profit of a joint-stock company, divided periodically among the holders (usually reckoned at a certain rate per cent.); also, the sum divided among the creditors of an insolvent estate. to declare a dividend: declare v. 5d. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit to be shared dividend1623 melon1909 1623 W. Sclater Quæstion of Tythes 152 Will you mooue doubt whether Tithes entered the common Diuidend? 1643 J. Milton Soveraigne Salve 11 Profits and emoluments accrewing may make a dividend sufficient to draw to some unjust act. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1948/4 The Creditors of Benjamin Hinton..are desired to meet..to receive an Accompt of their Trustees, and to advise of a Divident. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4744/3 Warrants for the said Dividend will be delivered. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 387 For some years past the bank dividend has been at five and a half per cent. View more context for this quotation 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. x. 286 Two fifths of these profits form a fund, from which the annual dividend on capital is paid. 3. transferred. A portion or share of anything divided; esp. the share (of anything divided among a number of persons) that falls to each to receive or pay. †a. gen. Obsolete except as figurative from b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > portion of anything divided dividend1477 canta1542 fee1573 cantoning1625 dividual1668 α. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy vi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 97 Another Furnace..serving for Seperation of dividents. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments v. sig. fff.iii/1 The Kinges Subsidye..is committed vnto me in the Kings roule a whole sum in grosse, to bee receaued of the Canons residentiaries for their diuident, who..cannot agree in diuiding. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 156/2 What portions or diuidentes ought to be made therof. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 81 Security the last deuident of Delicacy, it [sloth] includeth in it. 1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 108 Which otherwise rested upon the Priest or Clerks or that Church to do from the allotted divident. β. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiii. xlvi. 850 The financies and revenues..were shared out in dividends between some certaine of the head citizens.1670 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 28 Divided all things equally..the Boys Dividend being as large as my own.1779 S. Johnson Waller in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 104 The Panegyrick upon Cromwell has obtained..a very liberal dividend of praise.1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 260 What proportional dividend of man is a Staymaker? b. spec. The portion of interest on a loan, or profit from a joint-stock company, received by an individual holder as his share; the amount received by an individual creditor from an insolvent estate. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit to be shared > share of profits > received by individual dividend1690 1690 London Gaz. No. 2596/4 Sir Edward Dering Deputy-Governor of the Hudsons Bay Company..Presented to his Majesty a Dividend in Gold, upon His Stock in the said Company. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 337 A testatrix gave to trustees certain bank stock, upon trust to pay the dividends to her daughter M. for life. 1884 A. H. D. Acland & B. Jones Working Men Co-operators iii. 32 It is on the amount of her purchases at the shop that her dividend or share of profits is declared. 1965 Listener 16 Sept. 402/2 Nothing in fact will pay better dividends in the long run than a determined effort to discover what is actually going on in the Health Service. †4. The action of dividing among a number of persons; distribution (esp. of profits, or assets.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > dividing and sharing out partingc1330 departinga1340 divisionc1380 partition1429 departison1444 dividentc1450 skiftingc1450 partage1484 portiona1513 departition?c1530 dividend1535 portioning1556 reparting1574 repartment1574 parcery1582 sharing1598 apportion1628 compartition1636 department1677 dividing1719 whacking1851 partitionment1864 divide1873 share-out1877 whack1885 sharesies1916 carve-up1935 1300 Act 28 Edw. I Super Cartas ii, Et des choses issint par eus prises..soit faite dividende entre les prenours & les gardeins des feires.] α. 1535 H. Latimer Fruitf. Serm. i. Eph. vi. 10 By these meanes a diuident [1635 devision] of the spoyle was made.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fi^v/2 A Diuident, diuidentia.1634 in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 126/2 The divident of corne is managed according to the ancient custome.β. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 265 Paying the debts and making dividend of the overplus into the reasonable parts.1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. ix. 159 It was the saying of Socrates, that if there were a common bank made of all mens troubles, most men would rather chuse to take those they brought, then to venter upon a new dividend.1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 292 So we resolv'd to steer for Zant..and there make Dividend of our Prize-Money and Goods. Compounds dividend-stripper n. ΚΠ 1958 Punch 25 June 839/2 What Odhams and the Daily Herald had done was not indeed exactly the same as what the dividend-strippers had done, and Mr Houghton may have been right in saying that the object of that exercise was not to avoid taxation. dividend-stripping n. (see quot. 1959); hence . ΚΠ 1958 Times 22 Apr. 10/3 Nothing in the Budget created more concern among many Conservative backbenchers than the retrospective effect of the proposal by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make the tax evading practice of ‘dividend stripping’ illegal—with effect from October, 1955. 1959 Times 8 Apr. 17/2 Dividend-stripping (which is essentially a finance company operation for offsetting a dealing loss against tax reclaimed from dividends accumulated by the company which is the subject of the deal) was stopped some time ago. dividend time n. ΚΠ 1860 All Year Round 5 May 88 He might be seen at the Bank of England about Dividend times. dividend warrant n. the documentary order or authority on which a shareholder receives his dividend. ΚΠ 1716 London Gaz. No. 5479/4 Lost..a Dividend Warrant on the South Sea Company. 1884 Harper's Mag. May 897/2 The dividend warrants are sent..by post. Draft additions 1993 A share in the payout from a football or other pool, received by a winner. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > of booty, spoils, or profits > of (football) pool dividend1929 1929 People 13 Oct. 18/1 (advt.) Our Pools pay the following dividends for Saturday, 5th October. 1937 E. Johnstone Profit from Football Pools i. 1 The difference, between the support given to football and racing pools, shows that something, more than the chances of winning big dividends, adds to the attraction of this form of weekend competition. 1952 Times 16 May 7/5 The winning of dividends in the football pools follows exactly the pattern of random selection. 1986 Financial Times 1 May 1/1 A syndicate of 11 Wiltshire hospital staff shared a £1,017,890 football pool dividend, believed to be a record. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1477
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