bonification

Noun

bonification (countable and uncountable, plural bonifications)

1. The paying of a bonus (especially in relation to taxes).
   • We beg leave to state that on high colors cut by ten yards, (instead of twelve yards for ordinary colors,) there is a bonification of eight per cent.1867, Congressional Serial Set
   • A bonification of the mash and material tax at the former rate will be paid only on exportations to foreign countries, since all the German states have accepted the alcohol-tax law of June 24, 1887.1893, Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, volume 3128, page 241
2. (broadly) A bonus that improves the score of a competitor who achieves a milestone.
   • Somewhat confusingly, the bonification – or bonus – is subtracted from the rider's time, not added to it.2015, Suze Clemitson, P Is For Peloton: The A-Z Of Cycling, page 18
3. An act or process of improvement.
   • But they also know that, in an area where bonification has been completed, and where in consequence, the inhabitants settle permanently in better houses and in all the other circumstances of a moderately good standard of life, malaria tends more or less quickly to lose its importance as a cause of...1945, Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, page 83
   • In terms of inferring what the corresponding condition of bonification is here if the malefics are able to maltreat through a simple sign-based opposition, I would suggest that the answer is the trine.2017, Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune, page 471