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special dividend

noun

  1. a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.


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Uncertainty over dividend taxes spurred a gusher of special dividend payouts—7.5 times more than average.

They were extended another two years, so the special-dividend payers were acting in haste.

All told, the special dividend payouts totaled some $30.9 billion.

An average fourth quarter has about 31 special dividend announcements.

The capital stock of this concern was then distributed gratis as a special dividend among its own shareholders.

Susannah knew that they were paying three per cent dividends a monthand in April there was a special dividend of two per cent.

A regular dividend of two shillings per share, and a special dividend of as much more was declared, aggregating in all £30,000.

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