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stockholder

[ stok-hohl-der ]

noun

  1. Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  2. Australian. an owner of livestock, as a rancher.


stockholder

/ ˈɒˌəʊə /

noun

  1. an owner of corporate capital stock
  2. a person who keeps livestock
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٴdzˌDZ徱Բ, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stockholder1

First recorded in 1745–55; stock + holder
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Following the June stockholders meeting, three new directors will have seats in the boardroom.

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I guess that’s what happens when you get a corporation running a studio because their bottom line is the stockholders and ours is our audience.

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“The system was up and operational,” said Danforth in a Tuesday Zoom meeting billed as a town hall for some of the company’s worried stockholders.

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The ruling resulted from a 2019 lawsuit filed by a Tesla stockholder in which he claimed the pay package was approved without requiring Musk to focus solely on Tesla operations.

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a stunning illustration of the hatred so many Americans feel toward for-profit health insurance companies, which too often make money for stockholders by withholding care from sick people.

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Stockhausenstockholder of record