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STAKEHOLDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stakeholder mean?
• STAKEHOLDER (noun)
The noun STAKEHOLDER has 1 sense:
1. someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner
Familiarity information: STAKEHOLDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("stakeholder" is a kind of...):
neutral (one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute)
Context examples
We know who it is and so do our opponents, but the referees and stakeholder would take no notice of that.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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