bonifications

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
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