shareholder
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Pluralshareholders
- 1A person or company that owns at least one share in a business.
Like owning a slice of a big pizza: the company is the whole pizza, and each share is one slice.
Each shareholder gets one vote for every share they own.
The company mails a report to its shareholders at the end of every year.
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Origin
It comes from the words "share" and "holder" joined together.