Freebase (1.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Dividend. Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business, or it can be distributed to shareholders.
short list [BACK TO TOP] Meaning: A list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.It consists of a group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr. , abbrv. or abbrev.riters often use shorthand to denote units of measure. Such shorthand can be an abbreviation, such as in for  inch  or can be a symbol such as km for  kilometre . The shorthand in applies to English onlyâin Afrikaans for example, the shorthand dm is used for the equivalent Afrikaans word duim.