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reshare

reshare verb: to share again.

Verb

reshare (third-person singular simple present reshares, present participle resharing, simple past and past participle reshared)

  1. (transitive) To share again.
    • I’ve overshared about my mother in print. Let me briefly reshare. It’s complicated.2018 January 23, John Sutherland, “Oversharing has its perils, but telling all about my mother worked for me”, in The Guardian
    • One participant, Kalae Nouveau, suffered more than others: her original and subsequent posts were deleted, resharing her posts was banned, and her account was shadow-banned, meaning its visibility was restricted.2020 October 19, Lacey-Jade Christie, “Instagram censored one of these photos but not the other. We must ask why”, in The Guardian

Noun

reshare (plural reshares)

  1. (Internet) The act of sharing previously shared material again, so as to reach a further group of users.
    • There are two types of reshares in Facebook: (a) link reshares and (b) content reshares.2014, Vijay Atluri, Günther Pernul, Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXVIII: 28th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference, DBSec 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 14-16, 2014, Proceedings, page 168
    • The emphasis on boosting “meaningful social interactions” between friends and family meant that the feed leant towards reshared material, which was often misinformed and toxic. “Misinformation, toxicity and violent content are inordinately prevalent among reshares,” said internal research.2021 October 25, Dan Milmo, “Facebook revelations: what is in cache of internal documents?”, in The Guardian

Forms of reshare

Verb
third-person singular presentreshares
present participleresharing
past participlereshared
pastreshared
Noun
pluralreshares

Origin of reshare

From re- + share.

Questions about reshare

What does reshare mean?
Reshare means to share again.
What part of speech is reshare?
Reshare can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of reshare?
The past tense of reshare is reshared.

Words near reshare in the dictionary

  1. reshapings
  2. reshard
  3. resharded
  4. resharding
  5. reshards
  6. reshare
  7. reshared
  8. reshares
  9. resharing
  10. resharpen
  11. resharpenable

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