Freebase (1.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Dividend. Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business, or it can be distributed to shareholders.
short list [BACK TO TOP] Meaning: A list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
short. 1  Short data type is a 16-bit signed two's complement integer. 2  Minimum value is -32,768 (-2^15) 3  Maximum value is 32,767 (inclusive) (2^15 4  -1) Short data type can also be used to save memory as byte data type. A short is 2 times smaller than an integer.  Default value 1  is 0. Example: short s = 10000, short r = -20000.