bonus

noun

1. 1

   Something extra that is good; an added benefit.

2. 2

   An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.

   I was a bank manager in the 1970s, but I never received or expected to receive a bonus for doing my paid work.

   The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.

3. 3

   An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.

   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.

4. 4

   One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.

verb

1. 1

   To pay a bonus, premium

   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.

   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.

Forms

plural

bonuses, bonusses, boni

past tense

bonused, bonussed

past participle

bonused, bonussed

present participle

bonusing, bonussing

third person singular

bonuses, bonusses