Definitions for shares

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shares share

Spelling: [shair]

IPA: /ʃɛər/

Shares is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in shares (aehrss).

Definitions for shares

noun

1. the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
2. one of the equal fractional parts into which the capital stock of a joint-stock company or a corporation is divided.
3. Digital Technology. a digital file or document that can be accessed by specific users on a computer network, as for viewing, downloading, or making changes to it: an act of sharing online content with specific users on a computer network:
4. a plowshare.

Idioms

1. on / upon shares, on the principle of sharing the profits or losses of an undertaking:

adjective

1. Digital Technology. noting or relating to the practice of sharing online content with specific users on a computer network:

verb (used with object)

1. to divide and distribute in shares; apportion.
2. to use, participate in, enjoy, receive, etc., jointly:
3. Digital Technology. to give specific users access to (online content), as by posting it on a social media website or sending it as an email attachment:

verb (used without object)

1. to have a share or part; take part (often followed by in).
2. to divide, apportion, or receive equally.
3. Digital Technology. to give specific users access to online content:

Origin of shares

1325-75; Middle English (noun) “cutting, division”; Old English scearu “fork of the body, groin”; cognate with Dutch schaar, German Schar “troop.” See shear

Examples for shares

But he shares with Foster Wallace a gift for exactitude, erudition, and moral concern.

"I'll let you in on some shares," Watts called after him as he turned away.

The cells that hold its 49 inmates for 22 hours a day were a few feet bigger, and no one shares.

First you worry me to take the shares, and then you worry me not—I won't have it, Nell, I won't have it!

As well as weekly church services, Boyfriend—who shares a birthday with Madonna—went to a private, Christian school.

My dear Quinn, some members of the Cabinet have shares in armament works.

The future Mr. Vergara—and star of ‘True Blood’ and ‘Magic Mike’ shares some life advice in an exclusive video.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

On its first day of trading, Alibaba shares were up 38 percent, yielding a market capitalization of $213 billion.

To any one who shares the faith I have been developing in this book, what I mean will be evident.