bonus
- something given or paid over and above what is due.
- a sum of money granted or given to an employee, a returned soldier, etc., in addition to regular pay, usually in appreciation for work done, length of service, accumulated favors, etc.
- something free, as an extra dividend, given by a corporation to a purchaser of its securities.
- a premium paid for a loan, contract, etc.
- something extra or additional given freely: Every purchaser of a pound of coffee received a box of cookies as a bonus.
Origin of bonus
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Related Words for bonus
premium, prize, gift, perk, gratuity, benefit, bounty, dividend, reward, gravy, goody, tip, ice, commission, plus, honorarium, frosting, hand-outExamples from the Web for bonus
Contemporary Examples of bonus
And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.
When they steal things, they want to get all the bonus points.
Prosecutors say the two then promised that employee a $10,000 bonus, which was promptly paid.
And bonus points for the school bus that burst into flames with the comic timing of a Simpsons gag.
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November 10, 2014
Salem the prep school kid felt so slighted by a paltry $3 million bonus in 2011 that he left the firm.
Historical Examples of bonus
No, what I want to get at is your idea of what should come to you, as a bonus, when I scoop the board.
The Market-PlaceHarold Frederic
Bonus Bill, advocated by Calhoun, 257;vetoed by Madison, 257.
Union and DemocracyAllen Johnson
To win on first card played a bonus of half the limit hand is given.
Pung ChowLew Lysle Harr
A prince, even, would have been satisfied with such a bonus.
Louise de la ValliereAlexandre Dumas, Pere
The agitation for a bonus therefore continues in the United States.
The Economic Aspect of GeologyC. K. Leith
bonus
- something given, paid, or received above what is due or expecteda Christmas bonus for all employees
- mainly British an extra dividend allotted to shareholders out of profits
- insurance, British a dividend, esp a percentage of net profits, distributed to policyholders either annually or when the policy matures
- British a slang word for a bribe
Word Origin for bonus
Word Origin and History for bonus
1773, "Stock Exchange Latin" [Weekley], from Latin bonus "good" (adj.); see bene-. The correct noun form would be bonum. In U.S. history the bonus army was tens of thousands of World War I veterans and followers who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 demanding early redemption of their service bonus certificates (which carried a maximum value of $625).