dividendo
dividend
noun dee-bee-DEN-doh Rare
Origin: From Latin dividendum (thing to be divided), from dividere (to divide).
Usage Note
Dividendo is used in both mathematics (the number to be divided in a division operation) and finance (a payment made to shareholders from company profits). In everyday speech the financial sense dominates. The plural dividendos is common in business news (reparto de dividendos = dividend distribution).
Examples
"La empresa repartió dividendos entre sus accionistas."
Natural Translation
The company distributed dividends among its shareholders.
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