paying dividends
Producing beneficial results
Paying dividends means yielding benefits or rewards, especially over time.
The phrase comes from finance, where dividends are profits distributed to shareholders, but the figurative use dominates: All that practice is finally paying dividends.
It suggests that effort or investment—whether of time, money, or attention—is producing worthwhile returns.
- profitableProducing financial benefit
- lucrativeYielding substantial profit
- fruitEdible plant ovary
- remunerativeYielding financial gain
- bearing fruitGenerating successful outcomes
earn · pay · career advancement · pay off · hard work · yield · strategic planning · personal growth · retained earnings · capital gains · corporate governance · passive income · return on investment · coin · harvest · shareholder equity · stock market · check
paying dividendssunk cost
Unrecoverable past outlay
throwing good money after bad · going to waste · diminishing returns · dead loss · net loss
paying dividendsbackfiring
Producing opposite results
falling flat · going nowhere · counterproductive · fizzling out · spinning one's wheels
paying dividendsfruitless
Producing no useful outcome
futile · all for nothing · backfiring · counterproductive · going nowhere
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