English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
From share + holder .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
shareholder (plural shareholders )
One who owns shares of stock in a corporation .
Shareholders are the real owners of a publicly traded business, but management runs it.
1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine , page 533: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.
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Coordinate terms [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
one who owns shares of stock
Arabic: مُسَاهِم m ( musāhim )
Bashkir: акционер ( aktsioner )
Basque: akziodun
Belarusian: акцыянер m ( akcyjanjer )
Bulgarian: акционе́р (bg) m ( akcionér )
Burmese: အစုရှင် (my) ( a.cu.hrang )
Catalan: accionista m or f , accionari m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 股東 (zh) , 股东 (zh) ( gǔdōng )
Czech: akcionář (cs) m
Danish: aktionær (da) c , aktieejer c
Esperanto: akciulo
Finnish: osakkeenomistaja (fi)
French: actionnaire (fr) m or f
Galician: accionista m or f
Georgian: მეპაიე ( meṗaie )
German: Aktionär (de) m
Greek: μέτοχος (el) m or f ( métochos )
Hindi: शेयरधारक m ( śeyardhārak )
Hungarian: részvényes (hu)
Icelandic: hluthafi (is) m
Ido: acioniero (io)
Indonesian: pemegang saham (id)
Irish: scairshealbhóir m
Italian: azionista (it) m or f
Japanese: 株主 (ja) ( かぶぬし, kabunushi )
Kazakh: акционер ( aksioner )
Korean: 주주(株主) (ko) ( juju )
Kyrgyz: акционер (ky) ( aktsioner )
Latvian: akcionārs m
Lower Sorbian: akcionaŕ m
Macedonian: акционе́р m ( akcionér ) , акционе́рка f ( akcionérka )
Maori: kaiwhaipānga
Norwegian: aksjonær (no) , aksjeeier
Polish: akcjonariusz (pl) m , akcjonariuszka (pl) f , udziałowiec (pl) m
Portuguese: acionista (pt) m or f , accionista (pt) m or f
Romanian: acționar (ro) m , acționară (ro) f
Russian: акционе́р (ru) m ( akcionér ) , акционе́рка (ru) f ( akcionérka ) , владе́лец а́кций m ( vladélec ákcij ) , владе́лица а́кций f ( vladélica ákcij ) , держа́тель а́кций m ( deržátelʹ ákcij ) , держа́тельница а́кций f ( deržátelʹnica ákcij )
Serbo-Croatian: diòničār (sh) m
Slovene: délničar
Spanish: accionista (es) m or f , accionario (es) m
Swahili: mweyehisa (sw)
Swedish: aktieägare (sv) c
Tagalog: kasapi
Turkish: aksiyoner (tr) , hissedar (tr)
Ukrainian: акціонер (uk) m ( akcioner ) , акціонерка f ( akcionerka )
Vietnamese: cổ đông (vi) (股東 ), người có cổ phần
Welsh: cyfranddaliwr m
Zazaki: hisedar c , wahêr (diq) c , wertağ