| 单词 | on the shares |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the shares P5. on shares (also upon shares, on the shares): working, esp. on a farm or fishing boat, under a profit-sharing arrangement rather than for wages; (sometimes more generally) working under any kind of sharecropping system. Formerly often in to go on shares (with). Cf. sharecropping n., sharefarming n., shareman n., sharemilking n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adverb] on sharesa1657 a1657 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 155 All her men were upon shars. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 216 Men can always be had to go on shares, which is by far the most profitable method, both to the employers and the fishermen. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. v. 118 He had proposed to me to send a venture by the same ship, or go on shares with him. 1882 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox Sketches from Texas Siftings 51 The joyful glee of farming with negro renters ‘on the shares’. 1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 345/2 It all came out of his own pocket, for he was sailing the vessel on shares. 2002 Western Horseman Jan. 43 Some people say you can't afford to run cattle on shares anymore, but I think there are opportunities to make it work... Share-cows have been good to us. < as lemmas |
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