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shareholder

[shair-hohl-der]

noun

  1. a holder or owner of shares, share, especially in a company or corporation.



shareholder

/ ˈʃɛəˌəʊə /

noun

  1. the owner of one or more shares in a company

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • shareholding noun
  • nonshareholder noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shareholder1

First recorded in 1785–95; share 1 + holder
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Musk’s retreat from Washington comes after his electric vehicle company Tesla sputtered amid economic turmoil — caused by a mixture of his own declining favorability and some shareholders reportedly losing confidence in his leadership.

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In the early 1980s, he became the largest shareholder in Occidental Petroleum.

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Uefa's rules state "no individual or legal entity" can hold a majority of shareholder voting rights at two clubs in the same European tournament.

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Earlier this week, Paramount asked shareholders to increase the size of its board to seven members at the company’s annual investor meeting next month.

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On 22 June 2005, the Glazer family paid £790m to buy out the club's exiting shareholders and to remove the club from the London stock market.

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