Meaning

noun assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

noun any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate

noun the allotment of some amount by dividing something

originFrom Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar…

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