shared meaning: definition, quotations

shared

adj

UK /ʃɛːd/ · US /ʃɛɹd/

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

"We are myth-killers, you and I, Moneo. That's the dream we share. I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies."1981, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Science Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

Synonyms: common, mutual
Derived terms: a worry shared is a worry halved, nonshared, preshared, shared appreciation mortgage, shared card, shared joy is double joy, shared lane marking, sharedness, shared neutral, shared sorrow is half sorrow, shared space, shared taxi, shared use path, unshared