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dividend warrant

dividend warrant

8.3
An official paper telling a company to pay a shareholder a dividend
  • noun
  • Formal
translation icon : orden de dividendo
  • She received a dividend warrant in the mail, which she deposited into her bank account.

Examples

  • The company sent a dividend warrant to every eligible shareholder at the end of the quarter.

  • If a dividend warrant is lost, the shareholder must request a replacement from the issuing company.

  • She received a dividend warrant in the mail yesterday.

  • The company issued dividend warrants to all its shareholders.

  • The company sent a dividend warrant to every eligible shareholder at the end of the quarter.

  • She received a dividend warrant in the mail, which she deposited into her bank account.

  • If a dividend warrant is lost, the shareholder must request a replacement from the issuing company.

Surface Forms

dividend warrant singular
dividend warrants plural

Morphology

dividend + warrant

The meaning is directly compositional: 'dividend' (a payment to shareholders) combined with 'warrant' (an official document/authorization) yields a document authorizing or instructing a dividend payment. This follows a standard noun+noun compounding pattern in English and would be inferable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings, aside from some domain-specific financial nuance.

Etymology

Dividend warrant comes from old business papers: dividend means a company's 'share of profit' and warrant is an 'official order' on paper. So a dividend warrant is literally the paper that tells the bank or company to pay your share, which is why it means an official payment document.