half-share
Americannoun
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a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
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a claim to half the income from a share of stock.
Example Sentences
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When politics took over, he sold his half-share in the company when he was first elected to Northern Ireland's Parliament in 1969, believing a politician should not also be a businessman.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2020
In the words of the announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, his half-share of this year’s physics prize “rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2019
A household would get one share for each adult and a half-share for each child.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
In 2007, Luard had taken a half-share in Valegro, and now the two of them had the opportunity to finance Hester’s yard, and Luard’s involvement in the sport, for years.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
You're to be asked in church first time next Sunday, You'll both live with me as agreed, and I'm going to make over three o' the cottages to you and a half-share in the ship.
From A Master Of Craft by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
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