in common with

1. 1.

   in the same way as; like

   “in common with families in general, one parent families have been getting smaller”

Questions about in common with

What does in common with mean?

in common with means "in the same way as; like".

Is in common with a common word?

in common with is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.