share

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To divide something and give part of it to others.

   We shared the cake among the four of us.

2. 2
   verb

   To tell others your ideas, feelings, or information.

   I'd like to share this idea with you.

3. 3
   verb

   To have or use something together with others.

   Our children share a love of music.

4. 4
   noun

   A part of something that is divided among people.

   Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.

5. 5
   noun

   One of the equal parts a company is divided into and that people can buy.

   My friends bought 100 shares of IBM.

Common collocations

• share a bed Verb + noun
• share a room Verb + noun
• share a video Verb + noun
• share an apartment Verb + noun
• share an idea Verb + noun
• share information Verb + noun
• fair share Adjective + noun
• buy shares Verb + noun
• own shares Verb + noun
• sell shares Verb + noun
• share a story Verb + noun
• share an experience Verb + noun

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 (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.

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