To care for the livestock that belong to someone else, in exchange for a percentage of the profits or offspring; to work as a shareherder.

(most often used attributively) The practice by which someone works as a shareherder; shareherding.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of herd cats

simple past tense and past participle of herd cats

To push people or animals into a group, as a herd.

plural of herd behaviour

plural of herd path

(Internet, computer security) A large collection of compromised systems exploited for malicious purposes.

(idiomatic, in similes) To attempt to control the uncontrollable. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see herd, cat.

(sociology) the tendency of a group of individuals (a herd) to react coherently without there being any coordination between them. The term may be applied to animals, or to human phenomena such as stock market bubbles and behaviour in political demonstrations.