Bonus

/ˈbəʊ.nəs/ · noun

Meaning

Something extra that is good; an added benefit..

Definitions by Sense

1. Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
2. An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
3. (video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
4. (basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
5. (transitive) To pay a bonus, premium

Example Sentences

The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.

I was a bank manager in the 1970s, but I never received or expected to receive a bonus for doing my paid work.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

In its adherence to a system of rating which bonusses the most anti-social owners and penalises those doing something to improve the district, the municipality must accept a large measure of responsibility.

The main bulk of the piece-workers (71%) are bonussed for fulfillment of the production quotas by the section, shop or plant on condition they fulfill the norms.

Extracting grants called bonusses from municipal councils had become a fine art in the hands of railway promoters, and by the 1870s councils were aware that huge municipal debts could be mounted up by bonussing railway lines that as often as not never materialized.

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• bonuses
• bonusses
• boni
• bonusing
• bonussing
• bonused
• bonussed

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