Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To use (a computer) by time-sharing.
- intransitive verb To occupy (a vacation property) by time-sharing.
- intransitive verb To engage in time-sharing.
- noun A property jointly owned or leased by time-sharing.
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- noun A
property jointly owned orleased bymultiple people who are allowed to use it only during specifiedperiods eachyear . - verb transitive To own or lease (a property) by
time-sharing . - verb transitive, computing To use (a
computer ) by time-sharing.
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Examples
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He confided that he ran a chain of imaginary time-share vacation condos on the Riviera.
Mark C. Miller: The Story of the World's Strangest Romance Mark C. Miller 2011
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Spellbinding, if nonsensical, rhetoric evidencing nothing more imposing than an attempt to close a sale of some crass Nueva Vallarta high rise concrete monstrosity time-share on Bandaras Bay.
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Spellbinding, if nonsensical, rhetoric evidencing nothing more imposing than an attempt to close a sale of some crass Nueva Vallarta high rise concrete monstrosity time-share on Bandaras Bay.
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By September, everyone in that time-share hated me.
Binky Philips: Bumping Into a Metal God at a Disco Binky Philips 2011
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I do wear shorts when I'm in the tourist zone, but then I expect to be treated as a tourist and get accosted by every time-share tout in town.
Page 2 2009
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Spellbinding, if nonsensical, rhetoric evidencing nothing more imposing than an attempt to close a sale of some crass Nueva Vallarta high rise concrete monstrosity time-share on Bandaras Bay.
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A male couple — Barrie and Tony from Chelmsford, England — can choose to conceive and both be registered as the biological fathers of their children not so much on the technical grounds that they had “co-mingled” their sperm before shipping it out to their Fallopian time-share in California but out of a more basic sympathy that this is how Barrie and Tony “self-identify” and it would be cruel to deny them.
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A male couple — Barrie and Tony from Chelmsford, England — can choose to conceive and both be registered as the biological fathers of their children not so much on the technical grounds that they had “co-mingled” their sperm before shipping it out to their Fallopian time-share in California but out of a more basic sympathy that this is how Barrie and Tony “self-identify” and it would be cruel to deny them.
ProWomanProLife » Mark Steyn on the “freedom to choose” 2009
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The home was the culmination of David Siegel's Horatio Alger story, from TV repairman to chief executive and owner of America's largest time-share company, Westgate Resorts, with more than $1 billion in annual revenue and $200 million in profits.
The Wild Ride of the 1% Robert Frank 2011
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By September, everyone in that time-share hated me.
Binky Philips: Bumping Into a Metal God at a Disco Binky Philips 2011
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