Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something given or paid in addition to what is usual or expected.
- noun A sum of money or an equivalent given to an employee in addition to the employee's usual compensation.
- noun A sum of money in addition to salary that is given to a professional athlete for signing up with a team.
- noun A subsidy from a government to an industry.
- noun A sum of money paid by a government to a war veteran.
- noun A premium, as of stock, that is given by a corporation to another party, such as a purchaser of its securities.
- noun A sum of money that is paid by a corporation in excess of interest or royalties charged for the granting of a privilege or a loan to that corporation.
- noun Basketball An additional free throw awarded to a player who has been fouled when the opposing team has committed more than a specified number of fouls during a period of play.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something of the nature of an honorarium or voluntary additional compensation for a service or advantage; a sum given or paid over and above what is required to be paid or is regularly payable.
- To give or add a bonus to; promote by the payment of bonuses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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. - noun An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
- noun Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something
extra that is good. - noun An extra sum given as a
premium , e.g. to an employee. - noun uncountable, basketball One or more
free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enoughfouls . - verb transitive To
pay a bonus, premium
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
- noun anything that tends to arouse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Even they must know that the word bonus comes from the Latin, meaning the "good" beyond the line of duty.
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Another bonus is being able to change your schedule so you can sleep during the day and work when the sun is turned off.
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And he came with an amazing number of what we call bonus bones, bones stuck to him from all kinds of other animals.
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Another bonus is being able to change your schedule so you can sleep during the day and work when the sun is turned off.
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No matter that you had to plough through 80 pages of the report before encountering the word "bonus", the bleating of the CBI in apparent defeat suggested this was a document with its finger on the popular pulse.
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My wife and kids ARE my best friends … and the bonus is my wife is my BREAST friend.
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BUSH: Part of the tax relief plan also enabled people to have what they call bonus depreciation.
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Corporations should respond, argued Luntz, not by curtailing bonuses but by banning the word "bonus."
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Clark said that additional information on this package of changes is available on her website, including what she called a bonus program that allows developers to, for instance, ask for an exception on height zoning limits by conceding off-sets; like providing affordable housing units, more open space, or preserving a local landmark, etc.
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He argues the meaning of the term "bonus" has been lost along the years."
Even the bankers are saying it: this might be the end for big bonuses
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