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Definition of Sharing

1. Adjective. Unselfishly willing to share with others. "A warm and sharing friend"

2. Noun. Using or enjoying something jointly with others.

3. Noun. Having in common. "The sharing of electrons creates molecules"

4. Noun. Sharing thoughts and feelings.

5. Noun. A distribution in shares.

Definition of Sharing

1. Verb. (present participle of share) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sharing

1. share [v] - See also: share

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharing

shareware sharewares sharewort shari'a sharia sharia law shariah shariah law shariahs sharias

shariat shariats sharif sharifian sharifs sharing (current term) sharings shark shark-jumping shark-liver oil

shark attack shark bait shark fin shark fin soup shark fin soups shark fins shark liver oil shark oil shark repellent sharke

Literary usage of Sharing

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

1. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"Report on profit-sharing and labour co-partnership in the United Kingdom. ... Management and executive control, p 192-210 '19 Growth of profit-sharing ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"PROFIT sharing, a method by which wage-earners receive a share of the profits ... Strictly speaking, profit sharing implies that the bonus shall be given to ..."

3. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"A preferable solution may be the adoption of mutually agreed upon power-sharing arrangements that encourage broad-based governing coalitions. ..."

4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"Among the proposed remedial devices are profit sharing/welfare ... Profit sharing is a device for binding together the employer and the employees engaged in ..."

5. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"Among the proposed remedial devices are profit sharing, ... Profit sharing looks to a vertical division; the employer and the employees of the single ..."

6. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Profit sharing affect« profits as the residual element. ... Profit sharing will not be widely applied unless it pays, by increasing efficiency. ..."

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