shareholders
USSHAIR-hohl-durz/ˈʃɛɹˌhoʊl.dɚz/SaySHAIR-hohl-duhzUK/ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)z/AUS/ˈʃeːˌhəʉl.də(ɹ)z/
- 1Plural of shareholder.
The company paid a quarterly dividend to its shareholders last week.
Major shareholders pressured the firm to cut spending and raise margins.
Note
Owners of stock seldom come singly, so the plural carries much of this word's work, especially as a possessive in phrases like shareholders' meeting and shareholders' equity. There the apostrophe follows the final s. Keep shareholder's, with the apostrophe before the s, for a single owner: a shareholder's vote belongs to one person, while the shareholders' vote belongs to all of them.
shareholders is a form of shareholder
shareholder, noun: A person or entity that owns shares of stock in a corporation. Full entry
- Forms
- shareholdershareholders plural
- Spelling
- shareholder → shareholders: add -s
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