noun

• 1The use of a property as a holiday home at specified times by several joint owners.

  ‘Anyone considering fractional ownership should visit the web sites devoted to time-sharing.’

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  • ‘My encounter offers a lesson about other high-pressure sales such as time-sharing, multi-level marketing and some life insurance and bank products.’

• 2The operation of a computer system by several users for different operations at the same time.

  ‘It's a modern version of computer time-sharing.’

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  • ‘It is available with up to six fiber outputs for energy and time-sharing with a pulsed-on-demand operation.’