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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bonus
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bonus payment (=an additional payment because success has been achieved)
▪ The team had made illegal bonus payments to players.
a compensation/bonus etc scheme (=in which people receive compensation, a bonus etc)
▪ a new compensation scheme for accident victims
added advantage/bonus/benefit etc
▪ The system has the added advantage of recordable DVD drives.
▪ Include people in your picture for added interest.
no-claims bonus
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
added
▪ The safety and durability that have become Volvo hallmarks are an added bonus, though anti-lock brakes are an extra £595.
▪ The truly neat Cal Schenkel cover is an added bonus, by the way.
▪ The attachments are an added bonus.
▪ That they all do so with big doses of customer appeal is an added bonus.
▪ Both should regard this as an added bonus rather than an outcome to be expected. 6.
▪ This was just a little added bonus - Alan also received a 27 percent pay rise.
▪ Then if anything did happen, it would simply be an added bonus.
▪ Shop around for one which has the added bonus of sun filters for protection.
annual
▪ It is also customary for employers to pay an annual bonus of at least one month's salary and to provide medical benefits.
▪ There is an annual profit bonus on liquor sales: this is pensionable and averaged £800 in the last financial year.
▪ Each year, Clerical Medical announces the rate of annual bonus to be added to each eligible policy.
big
▪ But the biggest bonus for Armagh fans is the inclusion of the Grimley twins, Mark and John.
▪ For his pains Flynn drew the biggest bonus of all the deputies.
extra
▪ This extra bonus applies only to the war boar and not to the Orc rider.
▪ And it was an extra bonus if it sold a million.
▪ Where profits are declared, tax relief tends to represent an extra bonus rather than a necessary incentive to foreign investors.
▪ The extra bonus with the Magician card is the S3 chip which is a dedicated graphics processor.
▪ To take advantage of this extra bonus offer, simply tick the box on your order form.
▪ As an extra bonus it was blessed by a monk from the local Prinknash Abbey.
▪ The love of words is an extra bonus.
real
▪ Howe's presence this season as coach is a real bonus to him.
▪ It would be a real bonus for you to be far more promotable by next Christmas.
▪ The result has all the colourful character of other hand dragged kitchens, but with a very real and visible bonus.
▪ This is a real bonus considering that anti-virus software is often responsible for slowing down your computer.
special
▪ All policyholders with a stake in the participating with-profits fund will receive a special bonus if they vote for the Aegon deal.
unexpected
▪ Its anti-nicotine effect was an unexpected bonus.
▪ An unexpected bonus was that the emergency work galvanised Loi out of his melancholy.
▪ The very first season did produce a totally unexpected bonus, however.
▪ Viewing the rapids was an unexpected bonus to the Niagara experience.
▪ However semantic change often gives an unexpected bonus, which one should accept in this case as in others.
▪ Don't assume the Goblins will hit anything - if they do it's an unexpected bonus!
▪ It was an unexpected bonus for a man of fifty-one.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ High remuneration, excellent prospects and an immediate cash bonus await the successful applicant who will present himself at twelve noon today.
▪ If the reverse were true, coal would be delivered free to the generators with a cash bonus of £10 a tonne.
christmas
▪ It was done and we all went home with bags down to our chins and a Christmas bonus.
▪ For those anticipating a handsome Christmas bonus, the Mission Mtime integrated home theater system is an elegant starter kit.
▪ The Christmas bonus has also been neglected for too long.
claim
▪ With two exceptions all have obtained no claim bonus rebates.
▪ A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers.
▪ Your full no claims bonus reinstated quicker under Auto-cover than with most other Insurance Companies.
▪ If this is the only payment we make, it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus.
▪ Although you can protect your 60% no claim bonus your premium may increase if you make claims or you receive motoring convictions.
payment
▪ Further additions to expatriates' pay may take the form of bonus payments.
▪ Since 1934, Lincoln has never missed a year in making bonus payments.
▪ For example, employees may receive bonus payments on the successful conclusion of their overseas assignments.
▪ Employees and managers alike are uncomfortable with distributing bonus payments under gain sharing without regard to individual contribution.
▪ They have a proven record of bonus payments to their with-profits policyholders for every year since 1824.
▪ They stood by their demands for back-dated bonus payments.
▪ Personal evaluations occur bi-annually and are used to assess both changes in the basic wage and individual bonus payments.
▪ Workers would receive a single bonus payment equivalent to US$27 to offset the price rises.
points
▪ No bonus points for losing face in front of them.
▪ A legal background can help you rack up bonus points in your job search.
▪ Points are awarded for each item and bonus points for any lines of doggerel quoted.
▪ Superb build quality and a good specification are bonus points and 100,000 miles or more can be expected from well-maintained examples.
▪ Contributing to an educational foundation or flood relief wins bonus points.
▪ Carrick, who will be 40 next month, brought Yorkshire maximum bowling bonus points by grabbing six for 58.
▪ Lose all three and it's game over, and five bonus points to your opponent.
▪ However, being inside the time does not incur either penalties or bonus points.
rate
▪ He was advised that the insurance company involved had been gradually reducing its terminal bonus rates.
▪ General Accident will follow with theirs in the afternoon, when it will also announce its bonus rates for life policies.
▪ This includes two things: the guaranteed interest rate and the regular bonus rate.
▪ In addition they were supposed to receive bonus rates after the daily target of 200 machines a day.
scheme
▪ Thus both management and employees would be covered by some sort of bonus scheme, maybe related to different indicators of performance.
▪ The bonus scheme is one example, but based around standard measured times.
▪ Work and method study is essential in the successful operation of a bonus scheme.
▪ Many firms, it says, cushion the blow with new bonus schemes or lump sum payments.
▪ Sadly, despite recently introduced performance bonus schemes, this gap is still widening.
▪ For his father Babur includes details of his pay rises, bonus scheme and overtime earnings.
system
▪ It may be achieved through complex processes of individualization in effort-related bonus systems.
▪ Everything from hardware-oriented managers to compensation and bonus systems to R &038; D / marketing promises of new home-run architectures discouraged them.
■ VERB
add
▪ A theatrical release would have been an added bonus.
▪ One that, as an added bonus, makes him apologize to his ex-wife for being such a gosh darn cad?
▪ The Coventry recording has the added bonus of two interviews with Braxton.
▪ I have divided it into four basic parts, with an added bonus at the end.
▪ This year King arrives with an added bonus, in the form of his daughter, Nell McGloin King.
▪ Right now, there is an added bonus.
▪ Anyway, matrimony carried an added bonus: travel benefits.
earn
▪ The way to earn a bonus is to reduce price.
▪ Should Laws earn the maximum performance bonus and fulfill the other conditions, he would make $ 213,500 in the final year.
▪ The labour constant should also give the operatives of different gangs or trades equal opportunity to earn a similar percentage bonus.
▪ He could earn a large bonus or none at all.
get
▪ Christmas bonus Pensioners usually get a small tax-free bonus shortly before Christmas each year.
▪ It is a great looking dish that gets a textural bonus courtesy of crunchy hazelnuts.
▪ This way you get the maximum possible bonus when combat resolution is calculated.
▪ If he were very lucky, he would also get a bonus: Coleby might provide him with evidence of murder.
give
▪ A third person may resent the waste of money and prefer to have been given a bonus to spend as he wishes.
▪ Rounding up from 0.3871, the more exact figure, to 0.39 gave Craig an unearned bonus of I 1.07 votes.
▪ However semantic change often gives an unexpected bonus, which one should accept in this case as in others.
▪ The gaffers gave us a bonus in Burgdy and Claray.
▪ Using this in the film gives the chase a bonus shot of extra realism.
▪ The landlords were given a bonus of twelve percent to induce them to sell.
▪ This was because car manufacturers gave retailers bonus payments if there were sufficient new registrations during a given period.
include
▪ However, she gives warning that this can still be misleading, especially if the interest includes an extremely attractive bonus.
▪ Sanders' $ 35 million deal included a signing bonus of $ 12, 999, 999.
▪ The rate includes a bonus of 1 per cent until January 27, 2001.
▪ The rate may include a bonus that disappears after six months or less.
lose
▪ Workers feared that opposition to the employer would lose them the ability bonus, which was increasingly determined by cooperativeness rather than skill.
▪ And if workers function as a team and one person misses time, the entire team loses the bonus.
pay
▪ Like those of Charles Brady, the biggest slice of Mr Samuel's 1999 earnings was paid as a bonus.
▪ Serigraph also pays workers a cross-training bonus of 25 an hour if they learn how to operate a new piece of equipment.
▪ It is also customary for employers to pay an annual bonus of at least one month's salary and to provide medical benefits.
▪ Quite simply, the crew members would be paid a bonus for every crossing.
▪ It is not as though they are paid a bonus for this production-line fishing.
▪ He persuaded each of the two railways to pay him a bonus of one thousand dollars.
▪ Dons should be paid a bonus for every year in which they do not publish an article.
▪ Two bonus programs fill in that gap: First, Honda pays an attendance bonus.
protect
▪ If this is the only payment we make, it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus.
receive
▪ For example, employees may receive bonus payments on the successful conclusion of their overseas assignments.
▪ If the employees produce 50 percent more than standard, they receive a 50 percent bonus.
▪ A charging war boar therefore receives a strength bonus of +2.
▪ If they produce 100 percent more than standard, they receive a 100 percent bonus.
▪ Workers would receive a single bonus payment equivalent to US$27 to offset the price rises.
▪ If the county meets state-set goals for such collections, it receives a bonus that can be used on any program.
▪ All policyholders with a stake in the participating with-profits fund will receive a special bonus if they vote for the Aegon deal.
sign
▪ Sanders' $ 35 million deal included a signing bonus of $ 12, 999, 999.
▪ His $ 750,000 signing bonus was spread over three years at $ 250,000 per year.
▪ Quarterback Boomer Esiason did not receive a signing bonus from the Cardinals.
▪ Wiley is expected to command a $ 10 million signing bonus.
▪ The deal included a $ 7. 5 million signing bonus.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Did you get a Christmas bonus this year?
▪ Liz earned a £1000 bonus for being the best salesperson of the year.
▪ The management offered a large bonus to those workers who stayed to the end of the contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Average salary for managers of large companies is £78,000, plus an £11,000 bonus, and in top concerns £107,000 plus £18,000.
▪ Childrens's books, with the bonus of attractive new ones from our Dunblane friend, surpassed all records this year.
▪ He had this idea that his bonus might suffer if a boss caught him away from his telephone.
▪ Should Laws earn the maximum performance bonus and fulfill the other conditions, he would make $ 213,500 in the final year.
▪ The bonus to the restaurant was that its name would be emblazoned on the side of the bins in smart gold letters.
▪ Top performing hourly workers in 1988 could earn as much as $ 80, 000 in earnings including bonus.
▪ Viewing the rapids was an unexpected bonus to the Niagara experience.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bonus

Bonus \Bo"nus\, n.; pl. Bonuses. [L. bonus good. Cf. Bonny.]

  1. (Law) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
    --Bouvier.

  2. An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

  3. Money paid in addition to a stated compensation. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bonus

1773, "Stock Exchange Latin" [Weekley], from Latin bonus "good" (adj.); see bene-. The correct noun form would be bonum. In U.S. history the bonus army was tens of thousands of World War I veterans and followers who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 demanding early redemption of their service bonus certificates (which carried a maximum value of $625).

Wiktionary
bonus

n. 1 Something extra that is good. 2 An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee. vb. (context transitive English) To pay a bonus, premium

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WordNet
bonus

  1. n. anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip" [syn: fillip]

  2. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output [syn: incentive]

Wikipedia
Bónus

Bónus is an Icelandic no-frills supermarket chain owned by Hagar. Bónus operates 29 stores in Iceland and seven in the Faroe Islands. It follows the no-frills format of limited hours, simple shelves and having a giant fridge instead of chiller cabinets.

Bonus

Bonus means

  • an extra payment (bonus payment) received for doing one's job well or
  • a salary or wages based completely on how well one does one's job, called performance-related pay or pay for performance.

Bonus may also refer to:

Bonus (basketball)

In the sport of basketball, the bonus situation (also called the penalty situation) occurs when one team accumulates a requisite number of fouls, which number varies depending on the level of play. When one team has committed the requisite number of fouls, each subsequent foul results in the opposing team's taking free throws regardless of the type of foul committed (i.e., whether or not the foul was a shooting foul). Teams under the limit are commonly referred to as having fouls to give, and thus they can try to disrupt their opponents without being penalized free throws. These fouls reset every quarter.

Bonus (patrician)

Bonus (, died 627) was a Byzantine statesman and general, one of the closest associates of Emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641), who played a leading role in the successful defense of the imperial capital, Constantinople, during the Avar– Persian siege of 626.

Bonus (Sirmium)

Bonus was a Byzantine general, active in the reign of Justin II (r. 565–578). He is known to have been situated at Sirmium, spending his career defending the Byzantine Empire against the Avars. He might have been a magister militum per Illyricum. The main source about him is Menander Protector.

Bonus (film)

Bonus (, translit. Premija) is a 1974 Soviet film directed by Sergey Mikaelyan. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Gelman.

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Usage examples of "bonus".

Dorwan and Bannat had done a good workmanlike job, and Kharl had paid them a handsome bonus immediately after his return to Cantyl.

If, as a man, he had also obtained some bonus of pleasure from this courtly cuddle of her exhausted self, well, she could not begrudge that either.

It carries the additional bonus of reducing tension and, if done on a regular basis, toughens the exerciser, making him more resilient and better able to handle stress.

Bonus Packs, Russians, the reservoir girl, even my Alpha homies in Iraq.

Another bonus: Fish oil and fish protein have been shown to regenerate the membrane of the meniscus, which is important if you suffer a painful tear, or have chronic meniscus discomfort.

Plus financial restitution for what this war will cost you, and a bonus for every Jewish or Metic man who actively fights for Caesar.

However, in ground formed and transformed by the nearby leythium node, the cave-lurker had the added bonus of the rare, sudden burst of rainbow color when he chanced upon a ley-crystal bud, unmined and grown enormous over years of disuse.

Later, several FBI agents connected to the Day of Terror investigation got cash bonuses for their work.

The annona was the pay bonus which Roman emperors traditionally granted their troops upon assuming the throne.

A laboratory at Harvard is also testing pro-tease inhibitor II as an anticancer agent, which would be a nifty bonus.

Chubby watched anxiously, and I wondered once again how he had managed all these years to fool her on the billfish bonus.

Just as he remembered it, he counted ten cards and that bonus of a paper-thin stick of hard, pink bubblegum that came in each package.

How they ever finished was beyond her, but Madame Fountaine, the couturiere, told her she was being paid a handsome bonus to finish before the wedding.

Executives who found investments-particularly deals that brought quick profits-were virtually guaranteed fat bonuses.

The regular Beirut game continued, and probably he had scored some more points for blowing up some Hizbollah, and perhaps would also receive bonus points if the Druze won.