bonus – English noun declension

English noun forms of bonus

Noun: bonus
Singularbonus
Pluralbonuses; bonusses

Sample Sentences

  • 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 colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today. [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:]
  • The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.
  • 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]

Nouns inflected like bonus

omnibus, bonus, campus,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *dwenos
4. Old Latin duenos
5. Old Latin duonus
6. Latin bonusbor.
7. English bonus
8. Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.

Verbs referencing "bonus"

Danish Nouns bonus, Finnish Nouns bonus, French Nouns bonus, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns bonus, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bonus, Romanian Nouns bonus, Spanish Nouns bonus, German Nouns Bonus, Icelandic Nouns bónus, Portuguese Nouns bónus.