undistributed
Britishadjective
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logic (of a term) referring only to some members of the class designated by the term, as doctors in some doctors are overworked
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commerce (of a profit) not paid in dividends to the shareholders of a company but retained to help finance its trading
Example Sentences
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In contrast, a nongrantor trust reaches the 37% top rate on undistributed taxable income above just $16,000.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
One of the writers, Washington attorney David B. Rivkin, had helped write an appeal petition asking the court to take up a major tax case and rule the Constitution forbids levies on undistributed corporate profits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
And the health-care industry and its advocates are now leaning harder than ever on HHS to release the undistributed funds.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021
A year later, it instituted a tax on undistributed corporate profits, in theory giving businesses an incentive to disburse more earnings to workers.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
That number of presents was forwarded, and on Christmas day every burgher at the front received one gift, but there were almost two thousand packages undistributed.
From With the Boer Forces by Howard Clemens Hillegas
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