/ˈbəʊ.nəs/, /ˈboʊ.nəs/
OriginBorrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.
- Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
“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. ”
“The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.”
- An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
“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.”
- One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
- transitiveTo pay a bonus, premium
“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 responsib”
“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”
- countable, uncountableA surname.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas, United States.
Formsbonuses(plural) · bonusses(plural) · boni(nonstandard, plural) · bonuses(present, singular, third-person) · bonusses(present, singular, third-person) · bonusing(participle, present) · bonussing(participle, present) · bonused(participle, past) · bonused(past) · bonussed(participle, past) · bonussed(past) · Bonuses(plural)