SHAREHOLDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shareholder mean? 

• SHAREHOLDER (noun)
  The noun SHAREHOLDER has 1 sense:

1. someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation

  Familiarity information: SHAREHOLDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAREHOLDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

shareholder; shareowner; stockholder

Hypernyms ("shareholder" is a kind of...):

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shareholder"):

stockholder of record (the stockholder whose name is registered on the books of the corporation as owning the shares at a particular time)

 Context examples 

A business structure used in Europe and Canada, in which shareholder responsibility for company debt is limited to the amount he/she has invested in the company.

(Limited Company, NCI Thesaurus)

The company sells fully transferable stock, but all shareholders have unlimited liability.

(Joint Stock Company, NCI Thesaurus)

An offshore company in which a U.S. person owns 10 percent or more of a foreign corporation or in which 50 percent or more of the total voting stock is owned by U.S. shareholders collectively or 10 percent or more of the voting control is owned by U.S. persons which is treated by the IRS as a U.S. tax reporting entity.

(Controlled Foreign Corporation, NCI Thesaurus)