DIVIDEND

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DIVIDEND


DIVIDEND. A portion of the principal, or profits, divided among several owners of a thing. 2. The term is usually applied to the division of the profits arising out of bank or other stocks; or to the division, among the creditors, of the elects of an insolvent estate. 3. In another sense, according to some old authorities, it signifies one part of an indenture. T. L.

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