dividend
B1CEFR level
38/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A distribution of a company's profits to its shareholders, usually in proportion to their shareholdings.
The board recommended a final dividend of five pence per share.
Business noun
A share of profits paid out to shareholders.
The board declared a quarterly dividend.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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