stockholdern.

1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 116/1 The stockholders in the Silesia loan.

1776–83 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies I. 359 The stock-holders will be mistrustful, the shares will be depreciated, and the Company will fall to ruin.

1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ix. 498 The India stockholders would be left without any available means of realising their dividends.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 165 It draws the nobility into the competition as stockholders in the mine, the canal, the railway.

1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 943/1 Its stockholders pocket comfortable dividends of seven per cent.

1904 Athenæum 2 July 8/1 The use of ‘stockholders’ in the sense of shareholders is admissible in a work designed for American readers only.

1912 Times 19 Oct. 18/5 The Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Debenture stockholders.

1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia 276 The trading concerns [of the Stationers' Company] are managed by a regular committee of nine members; viz., the master, the two wardens, and six other stock-holders, who are annually chosen.

1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia 276 The livery (stock-holders) are summoned to elect.

1819 W. C. Wentworth Statist., Hist., & Polit. Descr. New S. Wales 97 The system which the great stockholders almost invariably pursue.

1824 E. Curr Acc. Van Diemen's Land 83 The most negligent stock-holders now carefully house their wool.

1830 Debates in Congress 10 May 927 The great stockholding interest, whose funds are in various stocks, which, altogether, constitute the national debt.

1961 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 Apr. 3 Ralph Gish, manager of the funds' investment departments, said common stock holdings have been increased in these industries.

1962 A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control ii. 18 If the cost of the material goes up, the amount of capital invested in stock also increases, and so does the stockholding cost.

1965 Mod. Law Rev. 28 v. 555 Loss to other outlets of fast-selling titles..can have a devastating effect on stockholding booksellers.

1971 Engineering Apr. 123 (advt.) This van is just one of many which provide a service from stock-holding depot to the customer... With 29 stock-holding depots strategically placed throughout the British Isles, you are assured personal service.

1981 Times 26 Jan. 15/2 A group of smaller stockholding concerns is said to have formed a consortium through which it can buy and distribute cheaper foreign produced steel.

1981 J. Sutherland Bestsellers i. 18 The stockholding bookshop would be sacrificed to the bookstand in the supermarket.