bonus

IPA: bˈoʊnʌs

Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
(video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
(basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
A surname.

Examples of "bonus" in Sentences

He argues the meaning of the term "bonus" has been lost along the years."
My wife and kids ARE my best friends … and the bonus is my wife is my BREAST friend.
BUSH: Part of the tax relief plan also enabled people to have what they call bonus depreciation.
Corporations should respond, argued Luntz, not by curtailing bonuses but by banning the word "bonus."
Even they must know that the word bonus comes from the Latin, meaning the "good" beyond the line of duty.
And he came with an amazing number of what we call bonus bones, bones stuck to him from all kinds of other animals.
Another bonus is being able to change your schedule so you can sleep during the day and work when the sun is turned off.
No matter that you had to plough through 80 pages of the report before encountering the word "bonus", the bleating of the CBI in apparent defeat suggested this was a document with its finger on the popular pulse.
Clark said that additional information on this package of changes is available on her website, including what she called a bonus program that allows developers to, for instance, ask for an exception on height zoning limits by conceding off-sets; like providing affordable housing units, more open space, or preserving a local landmark, etc.