на паях

• НА ПАЯХ (с кем)

[PrepP; Invar; adv, subj-compl with быть (subj: human), or nonagreeing modif]

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⇒ (to undertake some venture) collaboratively, contributing funds and/ or labor to it:

- go shares on sth.;

- share sth.;

- (do sth.) jointly <as partners>;

- (be in sth.) together;

|| на равных паях{{}}≈ (a venture < sth. is undertaken etc>) with equal shares;

- (undertake sth.) in equal shares;

- [when there are exactly two participants] with <in> half shares.

     ♦ Со Ставровыми Пряслины жили коммуной, считай, всю войну... Они держали на паях корову, сообща заготовляли сено, дрова, выручали друг дружку едой (Абрамов 1). Throughout the war...the Pryaslins and the Stavrovs had lived as a little commune they shared a cow, laid in hay and firewood together and helped each other out with food (1a)

     ♦ "...Да вы-то, господин Лужш/, чего же? Ведь это ваша невеста... И не могли же вы не знать, что мать под свой пенсион на дорогу вперед занимает? Конечно, тут у вас общий коммерческий оборот, предприятие на обоюдных выгодах и на равных паях, значит, и расходы пополам...≈ (Достоевский 3). "...But you, Mr. Luzhin, what about you? She's your bride... Can you possibly be unaware that her mother is borrowing money on her pension for the journey? Of course, you've set up a joint commercial venture here, a mutually profitable enterprise, and with equal shares, so the expenses should also be divided equally..." (3c).