v. offer extra money, property, or stock as an inducement to build or establish something; subsidize.
- 1883  In connection therewith it is rumored that the Hudson's Bay Company have bonused the line to the extent of half their land in Goschen.
- 1896  The principle of bonussing is abhorrent to most of us. . . .
- 1955  . . . Sweden does bonus milk consumption and . . . most enlightened countries are today seeing that milk . . . is available to schools. . . .