undivided profits
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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Under an undivided profits tax, the corporation might declare the same dividends with the result that it would have to pay 35% on the remaining $500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
To its depositors, the bank promised full payment, to its stockholders, the $10,000 capital they put up 33 years ago to found the bank, plus $21,000 surplus and undivided profits, $11,000 in real estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early last year he put forward his undivided profits tax on corporations.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the former date capital, deposits, surplus, and undivided profits amounted to $2,462,456,677.92, and on the latter date to $2,567,288,143.45.
From A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States by Clément Juglar
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