bonused
SayBOH-nuhstUS/ˈboʊ.nəst/UK/ˈbəʊ.nəst/
- 1Simple past and past participle of bonus.
Management bonused the sales team after a record quarter.
Top performers were bonused heavily during the boom years.
Note
A verb built from the noun for an extra payment. It takes the person paid as its direct object, as in the firm bonused its staff. That pattern makes the passive natural (staff were bonused for the year), with the participle doing the work. The s stays single before -ed, and the word belongs to the language of payroll and management more than to everyday speech.
bonused is a form of bonus
bonus, verb: To pay a person or body an extra sum as a reward or incentive, especially on top of regular wages. Full entry
- Spelling
- bonus → bonused: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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