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.

(epidemiology) The indirect protection against the spread of a contagious disease in a given population caused by the immunity of a significant proportion of the population to that particular disease; the immunity may have been obtained through having survived the infection or through vaccination.

(sports) A non-official path created by hikers, and usually maintained by the hikers themselves.

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

plural of herd behaviour

plural of herd path

(slang, transitive) To attack a person as a group or gang.

plural of thundering herd problem

(computing theory) The undesirable situation where a large number of processes waiting for an event are awoken whenever the event occurs, and then engage in a conflict over which process handles the event.