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share(3) (iou)



share noun2.

I. The action or an act of cutting or shearing. Only in OE.
The fork of the human body; the pubic region, the groin. Long only in share-bone = PUBIS 1. arch. OE.
II.
A division, a section; a part, a piece, a portion, esp. of land; any of several parts into which something is or may be divided. (Earliest as 2nd elem. of comb.) Long obsolete exc. dial. OE.
b. A piece cut out or shorn away. rare. L16-E18.
a. A part or portion which a person receives from or contributes to a jointly owned or larger amount. Formerly also spec., a duty levied on fishing boats; a portion of booty or prize-money received by a ship's crew. LME.
M. Wesley I have brought..your share of money for the things you gave..for my stall. Maclean's Magazine What share the republic would assume of the Soviet Union's..budget deficit.
b. A part or portion which a person is entitled to have; a person's allotted amount, due, or full measure of a quality, condition, or common experience. M17.
Sir W. Scott That..agility of which he possessed an uncommon share. L. M. Montgomery We can't get through this world without our share of trouble.
A part taken in something. Chiefly in have a share in, take a share in below. L16.
Ld Macaulay Having borne a principal share in the emancipation of the press.
Commerce. Part-proprietorship of property held by joint owners; esp. any of the equal parts into which a company's capital is divided entitling the shareholder to a proportion of the company's profits. E17.
attrib.: share capital, share certificate, share index, share price, etc.
Phrases: deferred share: see DEFER verb1 2. fall to one's share (a) be assigned as one's portion; (b) fall to one's lot. for my share (now rare) = for my part s.v. PART noun. go shares with enjoy a part in, participate in, contribute towards (a possession, an enterprise, etc.) with another or others. have a share in have a part in, participate in. on shares (chiefly US) a system whereby two or more people participate in the risks and profits of a venture (chiefly in go on shares (with), work on shares). ordinary share: see ORDINARY adjective 5b. PREFERENCE share. share and share alike with equal amounts, each having an equal portion. take a share in take a part in, participate in. the lion's share: see LION noun.
Comb.: share-bone: see sense 2 above; share economy a system of economic organization in which employees receive a share of their company's profits as a regular element of their pay (cf. wage economy s.v. WAGE noun); share-farmer (chiefly Austral.) a tenant farmer receiving an agreed portion of the farm's profits from the landowner in exchange for cultivating the land; share-farming (chiefly Austral.) the system of tenant farmers receiving an agreed portion of farm profits from landowners in exchange for cultivating the land; shareman N. Amer. a fisherman who shares in the profits of a fishing voyage with the shipowner in lieu of wages; share-milker NZ a person who works on a dairy farm in return for an agreed portion of the farm's profits; share-milking NZ the system of workers on a dairy farm providing their labour in return for an agreed portion of the farm's profits; share option a benefit given by a company to an employee, in the form of an option to buy shares in the company at a discount or at a stated fixed price; share premium Finance the amount by which the income received by a company for a stock issue exceeds the face value of the stock; share-pusher colloq. a person who attempts to sell shares to the public by advertisement instead of via the stock market; share-pushing the practice of selling shares to the public by advertisement instead of via the stock market; the selling of shares at what may be an inflated price; share shop a place (usu. within a bank or department store) in which members of the public can receive investment advice, or buy and sell shares without needing to conduct such transactions via a stockbroker; sharesman = shareman above; share tenant US a tenant farmer providing his or her own equipment etc. and paying a fixed percentage of the crop value as rent (cf. SHARECROPPER).