shareholdernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʃeəˌhəʊl.dər/us/ˈʃerˌhoʊl.dɚ/US also stockholdera person who owns shares in a company and therefore gets part of the company's profits and the right to vote on how the company is controlled:
Shareholders will be voting on the proposed merger of the companies next week.
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- Dividends will be sent to shareholders on March 31.
- The company's shareholders have voted to remove the executive board.
- The company secretary has written to all the shareholders to apologize for the mistake.
- Existing shareholders subscribed to only 49% of the new share issue.
- The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company away from the current directors.
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