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paying dividends

paying dividends is the present participle and gerund of pay dividends.

Meaning of pay dividends

Verb

pay dividends (third-person singular simple present pays dividends, present participle paying dividends, simple past and past participle paid dividends)

  1. (idiomatic) To bring about something good as a result of past effort or actions.
    • Aoun's alliance with Hezbollah appears finally to have paid dividends in moving him into the presidential palace, which the 128-member parliament must formally vote on, probably next week.2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera

Questions about paying dividends

What is paying dividends the present participle and gerund of?
Paying dividends is the present participle and gerund of pay dividends.

Words near paying dividends in the dictionary

  1. paying a visit
  2. paying attention
  3. paying back
  4. paying back in someone's own coin
  5. paying dearly
  6. paying dividends
  7. paying down
  8. paying for itself
  9. paying for one's whistle
  10. paying forward
  11. paying good money after bad

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