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share

Pronunciation: /ʃɛə/

The English word “share” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
  2. A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
  3. A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
  4. The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
  5. The sharebone or pubis.
  6. The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

verb

  1. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
  2. To have or use in common.
  3. To divide and distribute.
  4. To tell to another.
  5. To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.
  6. To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Etymology

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar…

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