See Also: Tight money or dear money(finance)
farm(2)(dictionary)
farm(dictionary)
farm(medicine)
fee-farm(dictionary)
feu-farm(dictionary)
Buy the Farm(money)
FEE FARM, Eng(law)
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fat farm(dictionary)

Dividend (money) and farm (medicine)


Dividend (money)


Definition: Portion of a company's earnings paid to stockholders.

Definition: [crh] A portion of a company's profit paid to common and preferred shareholders. A stock selling for $20 a share with an annual dividend of $1 a share yields the investor Definition: 5%.







farm (medicine)


farm


1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. "We are enforced to farm our royal realm." (Shak)

2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc, on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. "To farm their subjects and their duties toward these." (Burke)

3. To take at a certain rent or rate.

4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.

Origin: Farmed; Farming.

Source: Websters Dictionary