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Definition of stockholder noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

stockholder

noun
 
/ˈstɒkhəʊldə(r)/
 
/ˈstɑːkhəʊldər/
(especially North American English)
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  1. a person who owns stocks and shares in a business synonym shareholder
    • The corporations' goal is to enrich their stockholders.
    • the annual stockholder meeting
    Extra Examples
    • She was charged with having misled her stockholders.
    • The company told its preferred stockholders that it couldn't make its dividend payments.
    • the distribution of remaining stock to existing stockholders
    • the major stockholder in the company
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • sole
    • major
    • majority
    verb + stockholder
    • cheat
    • defraud
    • mislead
    stockholder + verb
    • vote
    stockholder + noun
    • meeting
    preposition
    • stockholder in
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