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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shareholding
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
majority
▪ Virgin was interested in the Ames group and took a majority shareholding.
▪ And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding, the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
majority stake/shareholding etc
▪ And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding, the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss.
▪ Demand from investors will determine how many new shares are issued, although Pittencrieff said yesterday it will retain a majority stake.
▪ Virgin was interested in the Ames group and took a majority shareholding.
▪ Vodafone, however, has a reputation of building up majority stakes in its company holdings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In contrast the style of shareholding encouraged by privatisation is secure, self-satisfied.
▪ Lord Young felt less able to help increase foreign shareholding limits since the commission was investigating Rolls Royce's foreign shareholding arrangements.
▪ Many of the above difficulties apply equally to the retirement of a shareholding director.
▪ Policies directed to widespread public shareholding in companies are therefore likely to be subverted by condoning insider trading.
▪ Put simply, the necessary finance can be made available to you in return for Barclays taking a minority shareholding in your business.
▪ The shareholding shuffle is likely to have been provoked by Philip Morris which is thought to have lost interest in Rothmans.
Wiktionary
shareholding

a. own shares. n. 1 The owning of shares 2 The amount of capital held as shares

WordNet
shareholding

n. a holding in the form of shares of corporations

Usage examples of "shareholding".

Russia and China had political systems without an economically powerful, shareholding middle class, which could start or follow fashions, and support romantic, visionary ventures.

The second iron rule is that inheritance follows Clan shareholdings, not lineage or family.

Olga can advise you on bloodlines and shareholdings and etiquette, and begin language lessons.

She paid particular attention to a file marked Investments and took down the details of his shareholdings and the correspondence with his stockbroker.

Maeder’s plan to liberate the equity shareholdings of USB’s discretionary clients, the theft from DZ of the Pasha’s correspondence, how he’d foolishly put his own fingerprints on the pistol that shot and killed Albert Makdisi.

Copies whose trust funds controlled massive shareholdings, deceased company directors who sat on the unofficial boards which met twice a year and made three or four leisurely decisions, could live with the time-dilated economics of slowdown.