Share vs Debenture - What's the difference?
share | debenture |
A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
The sharebone or pubis.
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
To have or use in common.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:while avarice and rapine share the land
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
To divide and distribute.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.
To tell to another.
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, title= (lb) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The shared visage hangs on equal sides.
(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
A certificate that certifies an amount of money owed to someone; a certificate of indebtedness.
(obsolete) A certificate of a loan made to the government; a government bond.
* 1942 , Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris , Sickle Moon 2001, p. 72:
(finance) A type of bond secured only by the general credit or promise to pay of the issuer, now commonly issued by large, well established corporations with adequate credit ratings.
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As nouns the difference between share and debenture
is that share is a portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone or share can be (agriculture) the cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine while debenture is a certificate that certifies an amount of money owed to someone; a certificate of indebtedness.As a verb share
is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.share
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) schare, schere, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share .
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* lion's share * share and share alikeVerb
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
Derived terms
* sharecropping * shareware * sharing economyEtymology 2
From (etyl) share, schare, shaar, from (etyl) scear, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ploughshare * plowshareStatistics
*debenture
English
(wikipedia debenture)Noun
(en noun)- Madame Corre, who made the important decisions after her plodding husband had spent hours on the ledger, sold the family debentures and put the money into Dutch decurities.
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