dividend

配当、配当金

会社が通常、利益の中から株主に支払うお金。

やさしい英語で： Money a company pays to people who own its shares, usually from its profits.

• The company paid a dividend.
• Shareholders received larger dividends this year.
• Will the bank increase its annual dividend?

よく使う表現： pay a dividend, annual dividend, dividend payment

成果、恩恵

以前に費やした時間や努力、お金から得られるよい結果。

やさしい英語で： A good result that comes from time, effort, or money spent earlier.

• Better health was an unexpected dividend of walking to work.
• The dividend from years of practice was greater confidence.
• Each useful contact represented a future dividend from the course.

類義語： benefit, reward, return

よく使う表現： a future dividend, an unexpected dividend

被除数

割り算で、別の数によって割られる数。

やさしい英語で： The number you divide by another number in a calculation.

• The dividend in this calculation is twenty.
• Divide the dividend by four.
• Which number is the dividend in this problem?

よく使う表現： the dividend, divide the dividend