plural of share
"The company's shares have doubled in value since the new product launch."
In plain English: Shares are small pieces of ownership in a company that people can buy and sell to make money.
"The company decided to issue new shares to its employees."
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of share
"She shares her lunch with her coworkers every day at noon."
In plain English: To share something means to give a part of it to someone else so they can have it too.
"They share their lunch break with their coworkers every day."
plural of Share
"The company's annual report lists how many shares each investor currently holds in the firm."
Shares derives from Old English scere, meaning a portion or part, which evolved through Middle English to denote an individual unit of stock ownership in a corporation. The term originally referred broadly to any allocated share before becoming specific to financial instruments.