shares

1. The units of stock that represent ownership in a corporation.

Example Sentences

The leadership shares their frustration about the lack of any guaranteed route to Scottish statehood.

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But its breadth and its focus on red-hot tech shares and smaller banks rattled some analysts and portfolio managers, who had come to believe that the 2025 market advance had grown immune to trade-war tensions.

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Sure, there was the speculative fervor that caused shares of companies like Pets.com, Kozmo.com, and even BN.com, the online business of Barnes & Noble, to pop.

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This past week, however, he questioned the wisdom of her new deal with OpenAI, under which OpenAI stands to receive 160 million shares of AMD stock in phases if certain milestones are met.

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The 45-year-old purchased fractional shares of companies like Apple and McDonald’s and loved watching the dividends grow from 5 cents to 10 cents to $100 or more as he added to the account.

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Related Words

• contribution 
• dividend 
• division 
• interest 
• part 
• percentage 
• proportion 
• stake