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单词 share book
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share bookn.

Brit. /ˈʃɛː bʊk/, U.S. /ˈʃɛr ˌbʊk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: share n.2, book n.
Etymology: < share n.2 + book n.
Now chiefly historical.
1. A book in which the ownership of shares is recorded; esp. (a) an official register of the shareholders of a company; (b) a book recording the shares held by a member of a cooperative society.
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1676 True Relation Just & Unjust Proc. Somer-Islands-Company 60 I Being desired by a Member of the Somer-Islands-Company to search Into the Share-Books and other Books of the Company.
1832 Charter of Incorporation (Law Soc. UK) 34 The name and residence of every member, and the number of shares belonging to him,..shall be entered in a book to be kept by the Secretary for that purpose, to be called the Share Book.
1920 R. S. Morrison & E. D. de Soto Oil & Gas Rights 930 They shall keep a share-book with stubs showing the number of each certificate, the name and address of the person to whom the same is issued, [etc.].
2008 Times 22 Mar. (Money) 22/3 My parents, who are in their eighties, found an old Mansfield Co-operative Society Share Book belonging to my grandmother.
2. A book whose copyright is not owned by a single publisher; a book published from the joint capital of a group of partners. Cf. Conger n.2 Now historical.
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1853 J. MacGregor in G. Stuart tr. J. L. de Lolme Constit. Eng. (new ed.) 4 In 1781 the work was bought of De Lolme by the trade, and was thereafter published under their mutual protection as what is technically called a share book.
1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life (1873) I. vii. 275 Trade Sales, as they were called, were frequent and general amongst the primitive race of booksellers; at which sales these share-books were sold, amongst other wares, to the best bidders.
1973 Rev. Eng. Stud. 24 527 Cowper's Poems, to give one example, did not become a share-book until 1812, all the early editions, from 1782 on, having been published by Joseph Johnson on his own.
2005 J. Raven in M. Daunton Organization of Knowl. in Victorian Brit. xii. 273 The weakening of the share book system also increased the risk for all.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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