Bonus
- n. Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.
- n. 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.
- n. An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.