shares
Meaning of shares
plural noun
- a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute.
under the proposals, investors would pay a greater share of the annual fees required
we gave them all the chance to have a share in the profits
- one of the equal parts into which a company's capital is divided, entitling the holder to a proportion of the profits.
he's selling his shares in BT
- an instance of posting or reposting something on a social media website or application.
there have been 25,000 shares on Twitter and 117 likes on Facebook as of 7:30 p.m.
- have a portion of (something) with another or others.
he shared the pie with her
all members of the band equally share the band's profits
Old English scearu ‘division, part into which something may be divided’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schare and German Schar ‘troop, multitude’, also to shear. The verb dates from the late 16th century.
plural noun
short for ploughshare.
Information about shares
- The singular form of shares is: share.
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Hyphenation of shares
shares
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- shares is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
shares synonyms
Meaning a part of something divided between two or more people; a share:
Meaning an amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something:
Meaning each of the parts into which something is divided:
Meaning a small piece, part, or quantity of something:
Meaning a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute:
Meaning the amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose:
Meaning a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime:
Meaning an amount of a resource assigned to a particular recipient:
Meaning an amount allotted to a person:
Meaning a particular group or set of people or things:
Meaning a plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose:
Meaning one's right; what is owed to one:
Meaning a rate, number, or amount in each hundred:
Meaning a sum, typically a set percentage of the value involved, paid to an agent in a commercial transaction:
Meaning an individual's share of a dividend:
Meaning a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc:
Meaning a stake or involvement in an undertaking, especially a financial one:
Meaning the quality of being fair and impartial:
Meaning a portion of food served to one person at one time:
Meaning a quantity of food suitable for or served to one person:
Meaning a share of the profits from something:
Meaning a specified share of or contribution to something:
Meaning a portion or share of something:
Meaning a dividend or share, especially of profits earned by a cooperative:
Meaning the action or result of apportioning something:
Meaning a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents:
Meaning each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided:
Meaning break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain:
Meaning separate or be separated into parts:
Anagrams of shares
Words that rhyme with shares
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