handsome dividend

collocation in English

meaningsofhandsomeanddividend

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handsome
adjective
uk
/ˈhæn.səm/us
/ˈhæn.səm/
A handsome man is physically attractive in a traditional, ...
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dividend
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪv.ɪ.dend/us
/ˈdɪv.ə.dend/
(a part of) the profit of a company that is paid to the people who own shares ...
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(Definition ofhandsomeanddividendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I believe they pay to this country ahandsomedividend.
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The plain fact is that unofficial strikes take place because unofficial action often appears to pay ahandsomedividend.
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That policy would pay ahandsomedividendin the shape of a greatly increased value of food production.
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Rewards and incentives which induced them to exert themselves would pay ahandsomedividendto the nation.
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By this token, too, the policies of the last few years have paid ahandsomedividend.
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Our policies have delivered ahandsomedividendof better health, longer life and higher quality care.
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To do so will pay ahandsomedividendin the reduction of accidents and also in reducing delays to traffic.
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I think that it would pay ahandsomedividendif a small team consisting, say.
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A scheme is a success to them if it pays ahandsomedividend; there is no other yardstick; there is no other incentive.
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By voting for grant-maintained status, parents would reap a veryhandsomedividend.
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I think he regrets himself that he has made his lasthandsomedividend, and is looking forward with some degree of misgiving to a deficit on the next occasion.
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If we do that, it will pay ahandsomedividend, but, at the moment, it requires a certain far-sighted forbearance on the part of the people now receiving that coal.
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It would pay them ahandsomedividendto lease or hire parts of our industry and to take them over as a long-term or short-term policy.
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No holding company with 14 subsidiaries, under private enterprise, would be satisfied if some of those subsidiaries paid handsome dividends and others made losses.
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Provided that money for investment abroad is available, it pays handsome dividends to this country; and not only purely in terms of money.
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Many people would probably receive substantial benefit from shorter periods, but this is one area where greater flexibility would pay handsome dividends.
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I contend that any money invested in agriculture now will pay handsome dividends well into the future.
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Money spent on well-thought-out schemes of road improvement is bound to pay handsome dividends in future in terms of productivity and efficiency.
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Most nutrition experts believe that these welfare foods have paid handsome dividends in terms of our children's health.
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Would not that be an investment which would, in the long run, pay more than handsome dividends?
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