Assertion: cooperative | /r/CapableOf | share their earnings
Facets:
value: to members
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: as patronage
type: MANNER
value: with the membership
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: as a dividends
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Cooperatives often share their earnings with the membership as a dividends, which are divided among the members according to their participation in the enterprise, such as patronage, instead of according to the value of their capital shareholdings (as is done by a joint stock company).
text: Because a cooperative that distributed all of its income to members as patronage would not have taxable income, the tax credit calculations allowed the cooperative to calculate patronage income before patronage.