big dividend

collocation in English

meaningsofbiganddividend

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big
adjective
uk
/bɪɡ/us
/bɪɡ/
large in size ...
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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 ofbiganddividendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Looking back over the last 25 years we can say that we have earned abigdividendfrom the national health services.
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It is not right that co-operative societies should sell their ribbons cheaper than their neighbours because they can get abigdividendfrom their milk profits.
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A concentrated effort in educating parents and teachers about sensible eating should produce big dividends.
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At the same time, the companies engaged in the work were able to pay big dividends and issue bonus shares out of good profits.
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Large profits were made and big dividends were paid to shareholders, but no reserve was built up.
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Some companies are still making big profits and paying big dividends.
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I feel that such legislation would be a valuable contribution to our economy and could pay big dividends.
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Are the big dividends to be maintained during the year and are the bonus distributions to continue?
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If it makes good profits and pays big dividends, it is wrong and the shareholders are penalised by heavy taxation.
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The question of supplying capital can be met if the companies, instead of paying big dividends, reduce them and put the money into the business.
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We were told in advance that this scheme was going to yield big dividends.
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It is the method adopted by directors of companies who pay big dividends without looking at the liabilities which they know are confronting them.
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That is what hard-headed businessmen thought about the prospects of getting big dividends out of the iron and steel industry.
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In almost every instance the tracks are not paying the big dividends to the shareholders, as was formerly the case.
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Some of them are doing very well indeed, and making considerable profits and paying big dividends.
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That would be an expensive service, but it would pay big dividends.
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Listening to pupils of all ages pays big dividends in terms of reducing pupil disaffection and increasing their commitment to their education and the school.
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The recruitment to the mines after nationalisation has paid big dividends to our economy.
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There could be big dividends for the environment and for local prosperity if ways could be found of making still more imaginative use of the various youth opportunities schemes.
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