shareholder
/ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)/US/ˈʃɛɹˌhoʊl.dɚ/
shareholder noun: one who owns shares of stock in a corporation.
Noun
shareholder (plural shareholders)
- One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.
- Shareholders are the real owners of a publicly traded business, but management runs it.
- Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag...1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533
- Synonyms:
- stockholder
shareholder meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
shareholder in Hindi
- one who owns shares of stock
- शेयरधारक śeyardhārak, अंशधारी añśdhārī, हिस्सेदार hissedār
shareholder in Tamil
- பங்கர், பங்குதாரர், பங்காளர், பங்கு உரிமையாளர், பங்குநர்
shareholder in Urdu
- one who owns shares of stock
- حِصّے دار hisse dār
shareholder in Bengali
- one who owns shares of stock
- শেয়ারহোল্ডার śeẏarhōlḍar
More languagesFewer languages
- shareholder in Gujarati
- શેરહોલ્ડર śerholḍar
- shareholder in Pashto
- سهم لرونکی sahm larunkay
- shareholder in Tagalog
- kasapi
- shareholder in Arabic
- مُسَاهِم musāhim, مُسَاهِمَة musāhima
- shareholder in Malay
- pemegang saham
- shareholder in Indonesian
- pemegang saham
- shareholder in Thai
- ผู้ถือหุ้น pûu-tʉ̌ʉ-hûn
- shareholder in Vietnamese
- cổ đông, người có cổ phần
- shareholder in Myanmar
- အစုရှင် a.cu.hrang, ရှယ်ယာရှင် hraiyahrang
Examples of shareholder in a sentence
- By realizing the company’s assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders’ investments.
- The shareholders objected to the stock offering as dilutive, leaving them with little or no leverage.
- The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
Synonyms of shareholder
Forms of shareholder
| plural | shareholders |
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Origin of shareholder
From share + holder.
Words formed from shareholder
Phrases with shareholder
Questions about shareholder
- What does shareholder mean?
- Shareholder means one who owns shares of stock in a corporation.
- What is shareholder in Hindi?
- Shareholder in Hindi is शेयरधारक (śeyardhārak), अंशधारी (añśdhārī), हिस्सेदार (hissedār). See Shareholder meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is shareholder?
- Shareholder is a noun.
- How do you pronounce shareholder?
- Shareholder is pronounced /ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of shareholder?
- The plural of shareholder is shareholders.
Words near shareholder in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shareholder (page history and authors); shareholder (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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