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Bonus   /bˈoʊnəs/   Listen
noun
Bonus  n.  (pl. bonuses)  
1.
(Law) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
2.
An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
3.
Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.






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"Bonus" Quotes from Famous Books



... non desiderare patriam. Cari sunt parentes; cari liberi, propinqui, familiares; sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est: pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere?" ...
— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West

... arci thuram, catalamus, singulariter, nominativo, haec musa, la muse, bonus, bona, bonum. Deus sanctus, estne oratio Latinas? etiam, oui, quare? pourquoi? quia substantivo et adjectivum concordat in generi, numerum, et casus." "Wonderful man!" says ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer

... land-hunters, we might ponder long over the town of Gratis, unless we thought Bonus promised more. There is Extra, and, if tautologically fond of grandeur, Metropolis City,—a mighty Babel of (in 1850) four hundred and twenty-seven inhabitants,—and Bigger, which has seven hundred. A brisk man would hardly ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various

... fiat eis deinceps injuria talis, Praecipit ut pereat munitio toto Johannis; Et sua militiae coelesti castra resignans, Humanis bonus excubiis locra sacra resignat, Largifluaque manu monachos juvat in renovando Sarta tecta, libros, et caetera quae furor ignis Solverat in cinerem, quae nobiliore paratu Quam ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman

... But the farmers he had in mind when he indulged in his memorable rhapsody upon the happiness of their lot were out for pleasure rather than profit. While the suburban poet sang to the merchant princes, Rome was paying a bonus upon imported corn, and entering generally upon that fatal disregard for the interest of the rural population which is one of the accepted causes of the decline ...
— The Rural Life Problem of the United States - Notes of an Irish Observer • Horace Curzon Plunkett


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