{
  "id": "share.distribution",
  "term": "share",
  "sense": "distribution",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "share",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a portion of a thing that is given to others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "portion.share",
      "give.transfer",
      "given.premise",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "the portion is transferred to others through the act of giving",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recipient assignment",
      "distributed ownership",
      "allocative purpose"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Farmers in Kerala's Kuttanad region share harvest proceeds from co-op rice paddies via the NREGA payment system.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station divides solar power equally among partner modules using a shared bus network.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A beehive allocates nectar stores to worker bees based on colony needs during winter months.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "portion.share",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertising.commercial",
    "average.statistical",
    "category.group",
    "club.social",
    "discussion.social",
    "distribution.economic",
    "federal.government",
    "friend.social",
    "layer.stratum",
    "pics.visual",
    "society.social",
    "story.narrative"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "share",
    "shared",
    "shares",
    "sharing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "added missing constitutive components; 'given.premise' and 'others.distinct-entities' were required for coherence with definition; interaction and properties updated accordingly"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-share.distribution"
}