(~s, sharing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A company’s ~s are the many equal parts into which its ownership is divided. Shares can be bought by people as an investment. (BUSINESS)
This is why Sir Colin Marshall, British Airways’ chairman, has been so keen to buy ~s in US-AIR...
For some months the ~ price remained fairly static.
N-COUNT: oft N in n
2.
If you ~ something with another person, you both have it, use it, or occupy it. You can also say that two people ~ something.
...the small income he had ~d with his brother from his father’s estate...
Two Americans will ~ this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine...
Scarce water resources are ~d between states who cannot trust each other...
Most hostel tenants would prefer single to ~d rooms.
V-RECIP: V n with n, pl-n V n, be V-ed between pl-n, V-ed
3.
If you ~ a task, duty, or responsibility with someone, you each carry out or accept part of it. You can also say that two people ~ something.
You can find out whether they are prepared to ~ the cost of the flowers with you...
The republics have worked out a plan for sharing control of nuclear weapons.
V-RECIP: V n with n, pl-n V n
4.
If you ~ an experience with someone, you have the same experience, often because you are with them at the time. You can also say that two people ~ something.
Yes, I want to ~ my life with you...
I felt we both ~d the same sense of loss, felt the same pain.
V-RECIP: V n with n, pl-n V n
5.
If you ~ someone’s opinion, you agree with them.
We ~ his view that business can be a positive force for change...
Prosperity and economic success remain popular and broadly ~d goals.
VERB: no cont, V n, V-ed
6.
If one person or thing ~s a quality or characteristic with another, they have the same quality or characteristic. You can also say that two people or things ~ something.
...newspapers which ~ similar characteristics with certain British newspapers.
...two groups who ~ a common language.
V-RECIP: no cont, V n with n, pl-n V n
7.
If you ~ something that you have with someone, you give some of it to them or let them use it.
The village tribe is friendly and they ~ their water supply with you...
Scientists now have to compete for funding, and do not ~ information among themselves...
Toddlers are notoriously antisocial when it comes to sharing toys.
VERB: V n with n, V n among pl-n, V n, also V
8.
If you ~ something personal such as a thought or a piece of news with someone, you tell them about it.
It can be beneficial to ~ your feelings with someone you trust...
Film critic Bob Mondello ~s his thoughts on the movie ‘City of Hope’.
VERB: V n with n, V n
9.
If something is divided or distributed among a number of different people or things, each of them has, or is responsible for, a ~ of it.
Sara also pays a ~ of the gas, electricity and phone bills...
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of/in n
10.
If you have or do your ~ of something, you have or do an amount that seems reasonable to you, or to other people.
Women must receive their fair ~ of training for good-paying jobs...
N-COUNT: usu sing with poss, N of n
11.
see also lion’s ~ , market ~ , power-sharing