SHARES Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

shares 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of share

as in participates

to take a share or part everyone in the enterprise will share in the profits

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2 of 2

noun

plural of share

as in portions

something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group my share of the lottery winnings is over a million dollars her share of the bill comes to $13.44

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as in interests

a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something she sold her share in the business to her partner

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Whereas McKinney has never worked a civil case, Roy has managed multicity litigation and shares the credit for legal victories no attorney could secure alone. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 Still, Duet shares its usage limits with ordinary Claude chats. — Wen Shao, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Andrew Durand, with his handsome crab-apple features, makes a perfectly quizzical Benjamin; Kelsee Kimmel is stirring as his true love, who shares his age just once. — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026 Chee shares a writing credit with her on episode five, in which Lee, played by an excellent Hoon Lee, leaves the Trasks to pursue his dream of opening a bookshop in San Francisco. — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 Underneath the bodywork, the F 450 RR shares its basic chassis architecture with the F 450 GS. — New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026 Pratt also shares a son, Jack, with his former wife, actress Anna Faris. — Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Randle, 31, shares that goal, preaching from his very first post-trade media availability that the Nets plan on winning this season, not just grooming their young core for future. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 The singer also shares his daughter, Alexa Joel, 40, with his ex-wife, Christie Brinkley. — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 16 Oct. 2026

Noun

Investors can buy and sell shares of the fund on the stock exchange, rather than having to secure a direct stake in those businesses. — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Rollins — The pest control company saw shares fall more than 5% after third-quarter results missed the Street's estimates. — Darla Mercado, Cfp®,fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 Meta has a dual-class share structure, dividing the stock into Class A shares with one vote each and Class B shares with 10 votes each. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The Ellison family and RedBird Capital Partners are the sole holders of Skydance’s Class A stock, giving them 100% control the voting shares. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

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Verb

For Election Day voting, check whether your county participates in the Countywide Polling Place Program.

— S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Some 60-70% of the student body participates in one of 22 sports Mount Mercy offers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of participates

Noun

The full terms of the settlement weren’t immediately available, but an agenda item for Tuesday’s Fort Worth City Council meeting said Fort Worth will release portions of its ETJ and that Willow Park will pay the city $500,000.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
Adjacent portions are owned by Xcel Energy and Union Pacific Railroad.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of portions

Noun

Gold medalist Lauryn Williams is proof that not every financial adviser has your best interests in mind.

— Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
The race has also attracted millions in outside spending from some of Los Angeles’s most powerful interests.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of interests

Noun

Nvidia offers support via equity stakes and partnerships, then CoreWeave , Nebius and Iren , among others, buy the latest and greatest Nvidia chips — the current generation, Vera Rubin, was preceded by Grace Blackwell, Hopper and Ampere.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026
Exod With help from stakes and guy lines, the air beams then hold the tent fabric high and taut, creating a voluminous cabin ready to house a tactical table and everyone who has a stake in drafting the master plan.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of stakes

Noun

The proportions remain practical, and the overall design avoids some of the visual excesses found elsewhere in the segment.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
But Lee, who has been known to gut his characters in the final stretch, doesn’t raise the body count to Bongian proportions.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of proportions

Noun

Employees were given quotas to investigate 40 subjects a day, which is a rate of roughly 12 minutes per subject.

— Madeleine May, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Alongside Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, Netflix has lodged an appeal with France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, challenging new sub-quotas for investment in documentaries and animation.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of quotas

Noun

Yet other scholars, activists and intellectuals have their takes, too, on the Harlem Renaissance’s many political movements and bids for Black self-determination.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
But none of those takes attacked a man's character the way Robinson attacked Hurts'.

— Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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