bonus
Syllables: bo·nus/ˈbəʊ.nəs/US/ˈboʊ.nəs/
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bonus noun: something extra that is good; an added benefit.
Noun
bonus (plural bonuses or bonusses or (nonstandard) boni)
- 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.2009 February 14, “Letters: Time to sack the bonus culture”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2024
- 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...2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2020, page 70
- 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.1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25
- One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
Verb
bonus (third-person singular simple present bonuses or bonusses, present participle bonusing or bonussing, simple past and past participle bonused or bonussed)
- To 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 responsibility.1949, Land Values Research Group, Reclamation of an Industrial Suburb
- 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.1964, Translations on USSR Labor, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 22
Proper noun capitalized: Bonus
Bonus (countable and uncountable, plural Bonuses)
bonus meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bonus in Hindi
- extra amount of money given as a premium
- लाभांश lābhāñś
bonus in Tamil
- உபரிச் சம்பளம், மிகையூதியம்
bonus in Marathi
- extra amount of money given as a premium
- बोनस bonas
bonus in Urdu
- بونس
More languagesFewer languages
- bonus in Bengali
- অধিবৃত্তি, উপরিলাভ, প্রত্যাশার অতিরিক্ত কোনো কিছু
- bonus in Telugu
- బోనస్
- bonus in Malayalam
- ശമ്പളത്തിനു പുറമേ ലഭിക്കുന്ന പാരിതോഷികം, ലാഭവിഹിതം
- bonus in Kannada
- ಲಾಭಾಂಶ, ಹೆಚ್ಚುವರಿ ಹಣ
- bonus in Punjabi
- ਬੋਨਸ
- bonus in Gujarati
- બોનસ
- bonus in Odia
- ବୋନସ, ବୋନସ୍, ବୋନାସ
- bonus in Nepali
- बोनस
- bonus in Arabic
- عِلَاوَة ʕilāwa
- bonus in Persian
- شتل šatal
- bonus in Thai
- โบนัส boo-nás
Examples of bonus in a sentence
- The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.
- “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.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2020, page...
Forms of bonus
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bonuses |
| plural | bonusses |
| plural (nonstandard) | boni |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bonuses |
| third-person singular present | bonusses |
| present participle | bonusing |
| present participle | bonussing |
| past participle | bonused |
| past | bonused |
| past participle | bonussed |
| past | bonussed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bonuses |
Origin of bonus
Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.
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Questions about bonus
- What does bonus mean?
- Bonus means something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- What is bonus in Hindi?
- Bonus in Hindi is लाभांश (lābhāñś). See Bonus meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bonus in a sentence?
- The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.
- What part of speech is bonus?
- Bonus can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bonus?
- Bonus is pronounced /ˈbəʊ.nəs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bonus?
- The plural of bonus is bonuses.
Words near bonus in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bonus (page history and authors); Bonus (page history and authors); bonus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bonus (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bonus (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bonus (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bonus (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bonus (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bonus (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bonus (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bonus (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bonus (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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