pay dividends

English

Verb

pay dividends (third-person singular simple present pays dividends, present participle paying dividends, simple past and past participle paid dividends)

  1. (idiomatic) to bring about something good as a result of past effort or actions.
    • 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera‎:
      Aoun's alliance with Hezbollah appears finally to have paid dividends in moving him into the presidential palace, which the 128-member parliament must formally vote on, probably next week.

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