shared

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɛːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɛɹd/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ʃeːd/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d

shared

1. simple past and past participle of share

shared (not comparable)

1. Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
   • 1981, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune‎ (Science Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:

     "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."

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     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.

• (multiple entities): common, mutual; see also Thesaurus:joint

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