bonusing
SayBOH-nuhs-ingUS/ˈboʊ.nəs.ɪŋ/UK/ˈbəʊ.nəs.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of bonus.
Management is bonusing sales staff who exceed their quarterly targets.
Bonusing employees at year-end has become standard practice at the firm.
Note
A form built on the verb use of bonus, which is transitive: the person rewarded is the direct object, as in bonusing sales staff. As a gerund it keeps that object, so bonusing employees works as a noun phrase. Only the payment sense of the noun carries over into the verb. The game-score points and the basketball free throws remain nouns. The spelling keeps a single s.
bonusing 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 → bonusing: add -ing
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