What does dividend mean?
Word: Dividend
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Dividend means a share of a company's profits paid to the people who own part of it.
How do you spell dividend?
Syllables: div - i - dend
Tricky part: The vowel after the first d is the trap. Many pupils write an e there, just as they write devide for divide, so devidend is a common slip.
Watch out for: devidend, divvidend
Memory tip: Think of a mirror placed on the v: the same vowel sits on either side of it.
Idioms and Phrases
- pay dividends: to bring good results later on. Example: "All those early morning practice sessions paid dividends at the district meet."
Dividend in a sentence
Example 1: The company paid a small dividend to its shareholders this year.
Example 2: Grandfather uses his dividend to buy books for the village library.
Example 3: Our economics chapter explains how a dividend rewards people who put money into a business.
Fun Fact
The Dutch East India Company, set up in 1602, is known for paying some of its early dividends in spices instead of money.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
divid_n_
a) a, d
b) e, t
c) a, t
d) e, d
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d) e, d. The last beat has the vowel of pen, and the word ends just as it began.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our class project shows how a dividdend grows when a firm has a successful year.
a) class
b) dividdend
c) project
d) successful
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b) dividdend. The middle of the word has one d only.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
nddeviid
a) division
b) dividend
c) divisor
d) diverted
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b) dividend. Count the d's: there are three, and no other option has so many.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) intrest
b) ecconomy
c) comission
d) dividend
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d) dividend. Economy has one c, interest keeps its first e, and commission has two m's.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whom would a higher dividend please most?
a) a customer in its shop
b) an investor in the firm
c) the owner of a rival firm
d) a driver delivering its goods
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b) an investor in the firm
2. In a year of heavy losses, a company's dividend will probably be ____.
a) cut or not paid
b) doubled at once
c) raised a little
d) paid twice over
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a) cut or not paid
