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shareholder

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a minority shareholder (= someone who owns less than half the shares in a company ) ▪ A minority shareholder with 10% of voting rights refused to accept the plan. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE big ▪ Ultimately ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation [syn: stockholder , shareowner ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A '''shareholder ''' or stockholder is an individual or institution (including a corporation ) that legally owns a share of stock in a public or private corporation . Shareholders may be referred to as members of a corporation. Legally, a person is not ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shareholder \Share"hold`er\, n. One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1830, from share (n.1) in the financial sense + agent noun from hold (v.).

Usage examples of shareholder.

Shares owned by nonresident shareholders in a domestic corporation, the tax being assessed on the basis of corporate assets and payable by the corporation either out of its general fund or by collection from the shareholder.

Third Scene This gloomy place need not be a mine: it might just as well be a match-factory, with yellow phosphorus, phossy jaw, a large dividend, and plenty of clergymen shareholders.

While the council, as practical men of business, would be bound to promote the prosperity of their shareholders, he was sure they would be actuated by statesmanlike views.

Instead, the stock was actively traded on the London Exchange, and annual meetings were swayed by whatever coalition of shareholders emerged on any particular issue.

Ordinarily, unauthorized disclosure of Internal information is not expected to cause serious harm to the company, its shareholders, its business partners, its customers, or its employees.

C- and B- level bonds are gigantic funds, with lots of corporate shareholders who hate uncompensated risk and hire expensive lawyers to protect their investments.

There were always plenty of books, and besides those in the house there was the Atheneum Library, which, although not a free library, was very inexpensive to the shareholders.

Or downsizing may be undertaken as a more or less routine way of pleasing the shareholders, who, thanks to stock options, now include the top-level managers.

The shareholders themselves will do their best to enliven the festivities with fiddles, flutes and bagpipes.

It had been a difficult task, confidential shareholder lists pirated from USB notwithstanding.

Who had told Kaiser about the theft of the shareholder lists and their delivery to Klaus Konig?

The matter was as it were a partnership without deed of contract between the Portlanders and the shareholders of the vessel, and the Portlanders, though they also have suffered their losses, have not had the worst of it.

Sam has a board of directors he must satisfy, and shareholders 11 T he scientist shook his head, for the first time impatiently.

He could not help thinking that his unhappy drawing would make the task of getting shareholders more difficult than ever.

All corporations also had irate shareholders, whose dividends diminished as ransoms rose.