Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shareholders' agreement

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables: share-hold-er-s' a-gree-ment
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An agreement between the shareholders of a company that supplements the constitutional documents and typically covers such issues as dividend policy, rights of shareholders when one or more of them want to sell their shares, representation in the board etc.

Inflected Forms

shareholders' agreements (plural)

Questions

What does shareholders' agreement mean?: An agreement between the shareholders of a company that supplements the constitutional documents and typically covers such issues as dividend policy, rights of shareholders when one or more of them want to sell their shares, representation in the board etc.

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