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shareware

noun

Etymology

From share + -ware; popularized by Bob Wallace

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻
  2. inherited from *skarō✻
  3. inherited from *skaru✻
  4. inherited from sċearu
  5. inherited from schare
  6. formed as shareware — “share + -ware”

Definitions

  1. A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination…

    A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shareware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA