shareholder
Pluralshareholders
- 1A person or entity that owns shares of stock in a corporation.
As the largest shareholder, the pension fund pushed for changes to executive pay.
Shareholders approved the merger by a wide margin at the annual meeting.
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Note
Ownership without control is the point of this finance term: shareholders are the real owners of a publicly traded business, but management runs it. The holder can be an institution as easily as a person, and holdings are usually ranked, as in the single largest shareholder owning 16.7% of a bank. Their voice comes at meetings, which Kenneth Brown's account of the Newmarket & Chesterford Railway (1941) shows dissolving into groans and hisses.
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Origin
Formed from the words "share" and "holder," meaning a person who holds shares.