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noun/ʃɛə//ʃɛː//ʃɛɚ/
  1. 1

    A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

    • Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
    • The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
  2. 2

    A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

  3. 3

    A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

    • Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
  4. 4

    The action of sharing something with other people via social media.

    • Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
  5. 5

    The sharebone or pubis.

    • 1606: translation by Philemon Holland of Suetonius, De vita Cæsarum [Domitian 17] — [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts.
verb/ʃɛə//ʃɛː//ʃɛɚ/
  1. 1

    To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

  2. 2

    To have or use in common.

    • to share a shelter with another
    • They share a language.
  3. 3

    To divide and distribute.

    • [S]uppose I ſhare my Fortune equally between my own Children, and a Stranger whom I take into my Protection; will that be a Method to unite them?
  4. 4

    To tell to another.

    • He shared his story with the press.
  5. 5

    To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.

    • to share a folder, a screen
    • to share a video, a playlist
noun/ʃɛə//ʃɛː//ʃɛɚ/
  1. 1

    The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

    • The golden harvest, of a mellow brown, Upturn'd so lately by the fearful share.
verb/ʃɛə//ʃɛː//ʃɛɚ/
  1. 1

    To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.obsoletetransitive

    • The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.

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