profit sharing

noun

1. the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.

profit-sharing

noun

1. a system in which a portion of the net profit of a business is distributed to its employees, usually in proportion to their wages or their length of service

profit sharing

1. Distributing the profits, or part of the profits, of a business to its employees.

Other Words From

• profit·sharing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of profit sharing¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

More generally, across the economy, non-production-based bonuses, such as profit sharing, amount to barely 2% of total compensation.

From Fortune

By doing so, he thinks he can garner better profit-sharing agreements with Hollywood movie studios and hence higher profitability.

From The Daily Beast

One of these he was to hunt himself, the other one Ed Matheson had agreed to hunt on a profit-sharing basis.

From Project Gutenberg

In this latter sense the relation of the carrier to its clients partakes of a profit-sharing arrangement.

From Project Gutenberg

Co-operation and profit-sharing are not the only means by which this might be realized.

From Project Gutenberg

In France profit-sharing has made a much greater progress, and ordinary co-operation has met with slight success.

From Project Gutenberg

Strikes have almost ceased to exist in such institutions, and the future of profit-sharing is full of promise.

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