SHAREHOLDER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation

Synonyms:

shareholder; shareowner; stockholder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shareholder" is a kind of...):

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shareholder"):

stockholder of record (the stockholder whose name is registered on the books of the corporation as owning the shares at a particular time)