dividend vs earnings

earnings vs dividend

dividend and earnings both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dividend	Yes	No	No	No
earnings	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, earnings is a hypernym of dividend; that is, earnings is a word with a broader meaning than dividend:

dividend: that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly
earnings: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Other hypernyms of dividend include lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits.

dividend (noun)	earnings (noun)
that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly	something that remunerates
a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus)	the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
a number to be divided by another number

Difference between dividend and earnings

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.