pay dividends (English, verb)
expansion: pay dividends (third-person singular simple present pays dividends, present participle paying dividends, simple past and past participle paid dividends)
Senses:
glosses: To bring about something good as a result of past effort or actions.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: pays dividends
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paying dividends
tags: participle
present
form: paid dividends
tags: participle
past
form: paid dividends
tags: past