Definition of "time-share" [time-share]

• Computer Science To use (a computer) by time-sharing. (verb-transitive)
• To occupy (a vacation property) by time-sharing. (verb-transitive)
• To engage in time-sharing. (verb-intransitive)
• Variant of time-sharing. (noun)
• A property jointly owned or leased by time-sharing. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A male couple — Barrie and Tony from Chelmsford, England — can choose to conceive and both be registered as the biological fathers of their children not so much on the technical grounds that they had “co-mingled” their sperm before shipping it out to their Fallopian time-share in California but out of a more basic sympathy that this is how Barrie and Tony “self-identify” and it would be cruel to deny them."
• "The home was the culmination of David Siegel's Horatio Alger story, from TV repairman to chief executive and owner of America's largest time-share company, Westgate Resorts, with more than $1 billion in annual revenue and $200 million in profits."
• "Spellbinding, if nonsensical, rhetoric evidencing nothing more imposing than an attempt to close a sale of some crass Nueva Vallarta high rise concrete monstrosity time-share on Bandaras Bay."