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dividend reinvestment plan

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English

Syllables
div-i-dend rein-vest-men-t -plan
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A company-run program, in which for an enrolled shareholder, the program takes the company's stock dividend payout to the investor, to buy more shares in the company's stock.

Etymology

From dividend + reinvestment + plan. From being a plan to buy more shares in the company which issued the dividend by using up the dividend, to reinvest in the company.

Inflected Forms

dividend reinvestment plans (plural)

Derived Forms

DRIP

Synonyms

DRIP dividend reinvestment program

Questions

What does dividend reinvestment plan mean?
A company-run program, in which for an enrolled shareholder, the program takes the company's stock dividend payout to the investor, to buy more shares in the company's stock.
Where does dividend reinvestment plan come from?
From dividend + reinvestment + plan. From being a plan to buy more shares in the company which issued the dividend by using up the dividend, to reinvest in the company.

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