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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.
The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.
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In its adherence to a system of rating which bonusses the most anti-social owners and penalises those doing something to improve the district, the municipality must accept a large measure of responsibility.
The main bulk of the piece-workers (71%) are bonussed for fulfillment of the production quotas by the section, shop or plant on condition they fulfill the norms.
1991, Bruce S. Elliott, The City Beyond: A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada’s Capital, 1792-1990, Corporation of the City of Nepean, →ISBN, page 130:
Extracting grants called bonusses from municipal councils had become a fine art in the hands of railway promoters, and by the 1870s councils were aware that huge municipal debts could be mounted up by bonussing railway lines that as often as not never materialized.
“bonus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
↑ 1.01.11.2De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bonus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 70, 73-74
Further reading
“bonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“bonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
bonus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
bonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to be robust, vigorous: bonis esse viribus
who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
to have good lungs: bonis lateribusesse
to be brave, courageous: bono animo esse
(ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
disinherited: exheres paternorum bonorum (De Or. 1. 38. 175)
the aristocracy (as a party in politics): boni cives, optimi, optimates, also simply boni (opp. improbi); illi, qui optimatium causam agunt
justly and equitably: ex aequo et bono (Caecin. 23. 65)
(ambiguous) to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci
(ambiguous) to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudineesse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
(ambiguous) to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
(ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
(ambiguous) to be gifted, talented (not praeditum esse by itself): bona indole (always in sing.) praeditum esse
(ambiguous) he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
(ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
(ambiguous) to be brave, courageous: bonum animum habere
(ambiguous) to consider virtue the highest good: summum bonumin virtute ponere
(ambiguous) natural advantages: naturae bona
(ambiguous) to recover one's reason, be reasonable again: ad bonam frugem se recipere
(ambiguous) may heaven's blessing rest on it: quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit! (Div. 1. 45. 102)
(ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
(ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
(ambiguous) to squander all one's property: lacerare bona sua (Verr. 3. 70. 164)
(ambiguous) to confiscate a person's property: bona alicuius publicare (B. G. 5. 54)
(ambiguous) to restore to a person his confiscated property: bona alicui restituere
(ambiguous) allow me to say: bona (cum) venia tua dixerim