half-share

American  

[haf-shair, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈʃɛər, ˈhɑf- /

noun

1. a share, as in profits, equal to one half.

2. a claim to half the income from a share of stock.

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Example Sentences

Last year, BP paid $1.1 billion for a half-share of the offshore business that Equinor, the Norwegian oil company, has established off the east coast of the United States.

From New York Times

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

A draft deal had been finalized that included proposals that Abdullah lead a high council for peace talks and have a half-share in government appointments, Fraidoon Khwazoon, a spokesman for Abdullah, said.

From Washington Post

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

If combined salaries paid players is greater than their due half-share of revenue, a portion of annually withheld escrow money goes to owners to make up the difference.

From Seattle Times