shares

Noun (1)

share (plural shares)

1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
   • Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
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.
   • Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
4. (social media) 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.2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book
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.

Noun (2)

share (plural shares)

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.1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book IV

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