pay dividends

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pay dividends

verb pays dividends · paying dividends · paid dividends

  1. idiomatic To bring about something good as a result of past effort or actions. 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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@misc{pay_dividends_2026,
  title = {pay dividends},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pay%20dividends},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}