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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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