When people interact over time they come to shared meaning for certain terms and actions and thus come to understand events in particular ways.

It is evidenced by our satisfaction at work and our sense of shared meaning and purpose.

It is this shared meaning of marriage that is central to the success of so many individual unions.

Institutions like marriage are nothing other than shared public meanings from which arrive norms.

The project is gathering information about the way understanding is achieved through the construction of shared meanings in primary classroom interactions.

These insignia are not arbitrary but have a shared meaning that is understood by most students in Belgium.

The cognitive dimension focusses on the shared meaning and understanding that individuals or groups have with one another.

There are times, however, when communication is impossible because there are no shared meanings.

Metaphors such as comparing an organization to a machine or a family reveal employees' shared meanings of experiences at the organization.

The hermeneutic assumption is that these relations require shared meanings in order to be able to function and communicate at all.