dividend vs perk

dividend

noun
  • Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.) 

  • A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually). 

  • A number or expression that is to be divided by another. 

verb
  • To pay out a dividend. 

perk

noun
  • Perquisite. 

  • A percolator, particularly of coffee. 

  • A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up. 

verb
  • To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. 

  • Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds. 

  • To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out. 

  • To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker. 

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