Abstract In this paper, in the light of weighted sharing of sets, we investigate the possible uniqueness of meromorphic function of restricted hyper order with its linear c-shift operator. Our first two theorems improve a number of earlier results. Our last theorem together with a corollary improves and extends a result due to Li, Lu and Xu [14]. Most importantly, our another corollary deducted from the last theorem not only provides an answer to an open question posed by Liu [16] but also noticeably improves two results of Chen and Chen [4]. A number of examples have been exhibited by us pertinent with the content of the paper. At the penultimate section which is also the application part of our result, we extend a recent result of Liu, Ma and Zhai [17]. Finally, presenting two examples, we conjecture that one of our result may hold for a larger class of functions and we place it as an open question for future investigations.
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