Share vs Shareholding - What's the difference?
share | shareholding |
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.
Owning shares.
* 1846 June, “The , Number 198 Volume 32,
The owning of shares
* 2008 , Mathias M. Siems, Convergence in Shareholder Law , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521876753, page 144,
The amount of capital held as shares
As nouns the difference between share and shareholding
is that share is a portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone while shareholding is the owning of shares.As a verb share
is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.As an adjective shareholding is
owning shares.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
*shareholding
English
Adjective
(-)]G. W. Nickisson, [http://books.google.com/books?id=9D28w6Iaz1YC&pg=PA749&dq=shareholding page 749,
- Such are the returns of profits on the broad and the narrow gauge lines, which £. s. d. submits to the consideration of the shareholding world—and of the Great Western shareholders in particular.
Noun
(en noun)- Since in these countries shares are traditionally held directly by banks, other firms and the state, the problem of fiduciary shareholding arises less often.
