Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of share.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a distribution in shares
  • noun having in common
  • noun using or enjoying something jointly with others
  • noun sharing thoughts and feelings
  • adjective unselfishly willing to share with others

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Examples

  • Since the ringtone business is commoditized with a few large storefronts, sharing communities and many “DO IT YOURSELF” apps, they must have decided that it was not worth losing the rest of their money just to be another mediocre ’sharing community/marketplace for ringtones’ with no exit in sight.

    VCs Push 3Guppies Into The Deadpool Nick Gonzalez 2005

  • This essay uses the term sharing in the sense of primary usage orientated around borrowing and lending rather than 'let me show you the photos I took at last night's party'.

    Nokia Anthropologist Shares Thoughts On Mobile Sharing 2007

  • My latest Guardian column, "Free data sharing is here to stay," is live -- it's an argument about the "information economy," and whether restricting copying hurts or helps it.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • * And even with that chilling effect, the Pew study still has one in seven American Internet users file-sharing -- in other words, file-sharing is still solidly mainstream and nowhere near being "driven underground."

    Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives 2004

  • "The word 'sharing' surely means giving away something you have earned, or made, or paid for?" he said.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The guitarist - delivering the first annual BBC 6 Music John Peel Lecture at the Radio Festival in Salford, Lancashire, yesterday - said: "The word 'sharing' surely means giving away something you have earned, or made, or paid for?"

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • The guitarist - delivering the first annual BBC 6 Music John Peel Lecture at the Radio Festival in Salford, Lancashire, yesterday - said: "The word 'sharing' surely means giving away something you have earned, or made, or paid for?"

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • The guitarist - delivering the first annual BBC 6 Music John Peel Lecture at the Radio Festival in Salford, Lancashire, yesterday - said: "The word 'sharing' surely means giving away something you have earned, or made, or paid for?"

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • The authors specifically exclude the neo-fascist movement in the west, which they describe as sharing few of the progressive and internationalist values of the other social forces.

    unknown title 2009

  • It's sitting back and relaxing; what I call sharing "the common life."

    Crosswalk.com - Home 2009

  • The term sharing economy has many synonyms and near-synonyms, like gig economy, peer economy, collaborative economy, grassroots economy, and mesh economy.

    The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival | JSTOR Daily Catherine Halley 2019

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