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equityholder

equityholder noun: one who owns equity in a corporation or other business.

Noun

equityholder (plural equityholders)

  1. One who owns equity in a corporation or other business.
    • While the economic and the legal status of equityholders has been much studied in the past, that status of debtholders has been poorly understood in the literature.1992 June, Hideki Kanda, “Debtholders and Equityholders”, in The Journal of Legal Studies

Forms of equityholder

pluralequityholders

Origin of equityholder

From equity + holder.

Questions about equityholder

What does equityholder mean?
Equityholder means one who owns equity in a corporation or other business.
What part of speech is equityholder?
Equityholder is a noun.
What is the plural of equityholder?
The plural of equityholder is equityholders.

Words near equityholder in the dictionary

  1. equity language
  2. equity languages
  3. equity of redemption
  4. equity share
  5. equity shares
  6. equityholder
  7. equityholders
  8. equitylike
  9. equityworthy
  10. equiv
  11. equiv.

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