profit-sharing
21Profit-Sharing Plan — A plan that gives employees a share in the profits of the company. Each employee receives a percentage of those profits based on the company s earnings. Also known as deferred profit sharing plan or DPSP . This is a great way to give employees a… …
22profit sharing — prof′it shar ing n. bus the sharing of a portion of the profits from a business with employees, who receive it in addition to wages • Etymology: 1880–85 prof′it shar ing, adj …
23profit sharing — noun A system in which some of the profit of an enterprise are divided among the workers, giving them an incentive for profits without an equity interest …
24profit-sharing scheme — A scheme by which employees share in the profits of a business, usually through some type of share ownership. See employee share ownership plan; employee share ownership trust; savings related share option scheme; share option See also gain… …
25profit sharing — noun Date: 1881 a system or process under which employees receive a part of the profits of an industrial or commercial enterprise …
26profit sharing — Synonyms and related words: collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, cooperation, cooperative society, democracy, kibbutz, kolkhoz, public ownership,… …
27profit-sharing — noun a system in which the people who work for a company receive a direct share of the profits …
28profit sharing — noun (U) a system by which all the people who work for a company share in its profits …
29profit-sharing — UK / US noun [uncountable] business a system by which all the people employed by a company get a share in the profits …
30employee profit-sharing — emˌployee ˈprofit sharing noun [uncountable] HUMAN RESOURCES 1. another name for employee ownership: • The employee profit sharing plan holds about a 45% stake in the company. 2. a way of rewarding workers who have helped a company achieve high… …
