shareholder
/ˈʃɛɹˌhoʊl.dɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.
Example Sentences
- "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 and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway."
- "High prices have swelled profits for energy companies, leaving them flush with cash. And their shareholders are certainly feeling that windfall. Exxon Mobil made a record $59 billion profit in 2022, up 157% from the year prior, and the company plans to spend up to $50 billion buying back shares."
- "As of March 2022, the Qatar Holding LLC, the investment arm of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) was the single largest shareholder of QIB, owning 16.7% of the bank, while Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, is a board member at QIA."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)koréh₂ Proto-Germanic *skarō Proto-West Germanic *skaru Old English sċearu Middle English schare English share Proto-Germanic *haldaną Proto-West Germanic *haldan Old English healdan Middle English holden English hold Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English holder English shareholder From share + holder.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʃɛɹˌhoʊl.dɚ/
- British English: /ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)/