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
1 A short title in quotation marks, in cases in which the heading is too unwieldy to cite in full.  Because there is no date and no author, your text citation would include the title (or short title) n.d. for no date, and paragraph number (e.g., Heuristic, n.d., para. 1). Heuristic. (n.d.).