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Definition of Shared

1. Adjective. Have in common; held or experienced in common. "A shared interest in philately"

2. Adjective. Distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose.

Definition of Shared

1. Adjective. Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways. ¹

2. Verb. (past of share) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shared

1. share [v] - See also: share

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shared

shareability shareable sharebeam sharebeams sharebones sharebroker sharebrokers sharecrop sharecrop farmer sharecropped

sharecropper sharecroppers sharecropping sharecrops shared (current term) shared out shared paranoid disorder shared psychotic disorder shared service shareholder

shareholders shareholders' derivative action shareholders' derivative actions shareholders' meeting shareholding shareholdings sharehouse sharehouses shareland

Literary usage of Shared

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Energy Policies of IEA Countries: 2005 Review by International Energy Agency (2005)
"The environmentally sustainable provision and use of energy is central to the achieve-ment of these shared goals. Decision-makers should seek to minimise ..."

2. Energy Policies of IEA Countries by International Energy Agency (2004)
"ANNEX INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY "shared GOALS" Member countries* of the IEA seek to create the conditions in which the energy sectors of their economies ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"He had never shared in the aspirations and illusions of 1789. ... The hopes excited by Bonaparte's brilliant successes and vast ability were shared by the ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Thomas Shaw Brandreth (1846)
"And when the tomb was raised, they all return'd, And then assembling shared a glorious feast Within the house of Priam, Jove-loved king. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... were the rivals who shared with the favourite of Heaven the provinces of the empire. The tragic deaths of Galerius and Maximin soon gratified the ..."

6. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2006)
"/.5 Management of shared fish stocks Exploitation of major fish stocks (eg sprat, cod, ... shared ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... an anti-slavery champion, shared in the forcible rescue of fugitive slaves in 1798. The son found his warrant against slavery in the Bible, ..."

8. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"She knew that the exalted estimate she had formed of her husband was not shared by her subjects, and as in his lifetime, so to a greater degree after his ..."

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