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on commission
Idioms and Phrases
Making money based on sales or services rendered, as in Real estate agents rarely get a salary; they work largely on commission . This use of the noun commission , which generally refers to a percentage of the total price, dates from the early 1700s.Example Sentences
That doesn’t mean the commissioners can’t be successful, but it does mean they would rely heavily on commission staff and any hired consultants to train and guide them.
Later, after Burgess asks Undem how he is teaching agents, Undem gives an example of a hypothetical conversation with a prospective client on commission rates.
I’ve been paid hourly, on commission, as an independent contractor and on a salary.
May very occasionally helps out with the knitting at A' The Airts centre, but mostly knits the gloves on commission, just as her mother did.
Some experts said the shift on commission structure, and the billions of dollars that would flow into the housing market as a result, could spark a recovery in the housing market, going so far as to say that it could be as significant as the 1930s New Deal, a flurry of legislation and executive orders signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt designed to stabilize and rebuild the nation’s economic recovery following the Great Depression.
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