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dividendo

dividend

noun dee-vee-DEN-doh Less Common
Numbers & Measures Money

Origin: Latin dividendum, 'thing to be divided'

Also means

dividend (arithmetic)

Usage Note

Dividendo is used both in finance (a shareholder payment) and in arithmetic (the number being divided). In a financial context, cedola is sometimes used colloquially for the coupon payment, while dividendo refers to the declared profit distribution. The plural is regular: dividendi.

Examples

"La società ha distribuito il dividendo agli azionisti."

Natural Translation

The company distributed the dividend to the shareholders.

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