stockholder
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈstɑkˌhoʊldər/
- US
:
accionista
- As a stockholder, she receives regular updates on the company's performance.
- dividends for stockholders
- profits for stockholders
- large stockholders
In fact, they'll really just enrich the major stockholders.
- In fact, they'll really just enrich the major stockholders.
- Well, no, the stockholders didn't give you their profits for you to invest on their behalf.
- So that means inflation helps people who are stockholders, company owners or investors and real estate investors.
- And then you've even got in that mix the concerns of stockholders now for the company like, well, you know, we're just going to do this because it will appease the stockholders.
- Cutthroat corporatism, where the end game is stockholder wealth maximization at almost any cost.
- Now, in a in a small company, the stockholders owe each other a fiduciary duty, meaning you got to sort of treat everyone with a degree of fairness.
- My responsibility of my employees, my stockholders as such that I can't promise to be right all the time.
- And notice that Friedman does not just talk about the stockholders, owners or as he's going to say, the employers.
- He says, on the one hand, suppose he could get away with spending the stockholders or customers or employees money, How is he to know how to spend it?
Examples
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So by buying stock, stockholders bear the risk of owning and operating a business like Disney.
Academic text (1992) -
I need the names and the numbers of the stockholders now.
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So the US government was a preferred stockholder in General Motors.
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But capital has to act for itself, for stockholders, or nothing gets done.
Fiction book (1998) -
You know, the reason we started this stockholders' suit in the first place?
Fiction book (1995) -
So his stockholders get the dividends, right?
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By definition, these schools must answer first to their stockholders, not to their faculty or students.
Academic text (2005) -
These banks and their stockholders control the greater bulk of wealth in America.
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In terms of profit, it was a poor business for owners and stockholders alike.
Academic text (1993) -
Last year, after I was diagnosed, flew east to attend the annual stockholders' convention.
Synonyms
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3.4
A person or group that owns shares in a company
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4.3
A person who owns part of a company
Compounds
A duty of company directors to act for the shareholders' benefit
- Formal
A person or company whose name appears on the company's list of owners of shares on a certain date
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stockholder combines stock ('things or goods kept', like in livestock) and holder ('one who holds'). So a stockholder is someone who 'holds' part of a company's 'stock', that is, who owns shares.