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Share

noun

1.

Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group. Synonyms: part, percentage, portion.

2.

Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate.

3.

The allotment of some amount by dividing something. Synonyms: parcel, portion.

4.

The part played by a person in bringing about a result. Synonyms: contribution, part. "They all did their share of the work"

5.

A sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil. Synonyms: ploughshare, plowshare.

verb

(past & past part. shared; pres. part. sharing)

1.

Have in common. "The two countries share a long border"

2.

Use jointly or in common.

3.

Have, give, or receive a share of. Synonyms: partake, partake in.

4.

Give out as one's portion or share. Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out.

5.

Communicate.

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... and he ate his last before the bullet sent him to his rest. Here ends my second horse in 83 deg. S., not quite so tragically as my first when the sea-ice broke up, but none the less I feel sorry for a beast that has been my constant companion and care for so long. He has done his share in our undertaking anyhow, and may I do my share as well when I get into ...

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... if some one had dealt her a physical blow, and it required all her pluck and poise to enable her to take her share of the general conversation before ...

— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

... elements of his character many had the chance of knowing; but I shall always associate him with the memory of that pure and noble friendship which made me feel that I knew him before I looked upon his face, and added a personal tenderness to the sense of loss which I share ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... it. When Scipio perceived this, he was afraid lest, by the failure of his attempts, the courage of the enemy should be raised and his own troops be dispirited; and thinking it incumbent upon him to exert himself in person and share the danger, reproved his soldiers for their cowardice, and ordered the scaling-ladders to be brought, threatening to mount the wall himself, since the rest hesitated. He had now advanced near the walls with no small danger, ...

— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius

... oneself as it were, to repudiate altogether some straining or distressing or disappointing factor in the scheme of motives, and find a tranquillizing refuge in the residuum. So we have men and women abandoning their share in economic development, crushing the impulses and evading the complications that arise out of sex and flying to devotions and simple duties in nunneries and monasteries; we have people cutting their ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

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