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time-sharing

time-sharing noun: the joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year. Also the present participle and gerund of time-share.

Noun

time-sharing (uncountable)

  1. The joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year.
  2. A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.

Also used as

time-sharing is also the present participle and gerund of time-share.

Questions about time-sharing

What does time-sharing mean?
Time-sharing means the joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year.
What part of speech is time-sharing?
Time-sharing is a noun.

Words near time-sharing in the dictionary

  1. time-share
  2. time-shared
  3. time-sharer
  4. time-sharers
  5. time-shares
  6. time-sharing
  7. time-sheet
  8. time-sheets
  9. time-shift
  10. time-shifted
  11. time-shifting

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