shareholder.

A person or organization that owns shares in a company.

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Words that belong together

• major shareholder
• shareholder vote

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The major shareholder opposed the proposed sale.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular shareholder; plural shareholders. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.