Answer: Some preferred stocks are cumulative with respect to dividends, meaning that if a company skips a cash dividend, it must pay it at some point in the future.
Explanation:
Cumulative Preference Shares are preference shares that include a provision requiring a company to pay the holders all their dividends including any dividends omitted in the past.
If they can not be paid then they are assigned the term, "dividends in arrears" and must legally be paid eventually.
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