Definitions for bonus

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bonus bo·nus

Spelling: [boh-nuh s]

IPA: /ˈboʊ nəs/

Bonus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in bonus (bnosu).

Definitions for bonus

noun

1. something given or paid over and above what is due.
2. a sum of money granted or given to an employee, a returned soldier, etc., in addition to regular pay, usually in appreciation for work done, length of service, accumulated favors, etc.
3. something free, as an extra dividend, given by a corporation to a purchaser of its securities.
4. a premium paid for a loan, contract, etc.
5. something extra or additional given freely:

Origin of bonus

1765-75; Latin: good

Examples for bonus

And bonus points for the school bus that burst into flames with the comic timing of a Simpsons gag.

When they steal things, they want to get all the bonus points.

No, what I want to get at is your idea of what should come to you, as a bonus, when I scoop the board.

In the United States, for instance, a bonus of $10 per ounce was asked for.

A prince, even, would have been satisfied with such a bonus.

bonus Bill, advocated by Calhoun, 257;vetoed by Madison, 257.

Salem the prep school kid felt so slighted by a paltry $3 million bonus in 2011 that he left the firm.

To win on first card played a bonus of half the limit hand is given.

Prosecutors say the two then promised that employee a $10,000 bonus, which was promptly paid.

And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.