profit sharing
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.
Origin of profit sharing
1Other words from profit sharing
- prof·it·shar·ing, adjective
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How to use profit sharing in a sentence
More generally, across the economy, non-production-based bonuses, such as profit sharing, amount to barely 2% of total compensation.
The biggest problem with capitalism? Not enough capitalists | jakemeth | November 21, 2020 | FortuneBy doing so, he thinks he can garner better profit-sharing agreements with Hollywood movie studios and hence higher profitability.
One of these he was to hunt himself, the other one Ed Matheson had agreed to hunt on a profit-sharing basis.
The Gaunt Gray Wolf | Dillon WallaceIn this latter sense the relation of the carrier to its clients partakes of a profit-sharing arrangement.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. RipleyCo-operation and profit-sharing are not the only means by which this might be realized.
Contemporary Socialism | John Rae
In France profit-sharing has made a much greater progress, and ordinary co-operation has met with slight success.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century | Charles MorrisStrikes have almost ceased to exist in such institutions, and the future of profit-sharing is full of promise.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century | Charles Morris
British Dictionary definitions for profit-sharing
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
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Cultural definitions for profit sharing
Distributing the profits, or part of the profits, of a business to its employees.
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