fair share

noun

: a reasonable amount
He gets his fair share of attention, too.

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Democrats wanted to raise them, saying that corporations with staggering profits were not paying their fair share. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025 The problem was that to handle these risks, the owners of the grocery stores ended up using Artex Risk Solutions, a division of Arthur J. Gallagher, to set up their captive ― and Artex has also appeared in more than its fair share of these microcaptive cases where the taxpayers got slammed. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 The city could have cut the deficit in half if these large nonprofit institutions paid their fair share in PILOT contributions. Tykia Warden, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2025 After the game, a downtrodden Lindor took more than his fair share of the blame for how far this Mets team has fallen. Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fair share

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“Fair share.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fair%20share. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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