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
In contrast, a short-form confirmation is a confirmation that incorporates (and relies upon) one or. more sets of ISDA definitions (see further Section 3 of this paper). 5 At the date of this paper, a review of the 1996 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions is in progress.