STOCKHOLDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stockholder mean? 

• STOCKHOLDER (noun)
  The noun STOCKHOLDER has 1 sense:

1. someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation

  Familiarity information: STOCKHOLDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOCKHOLDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

shareholder; shareowner; stockholder

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

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

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

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

 Context examples 

Inquiries are now being made at the offices, but I fear that the complete register of the stockholders of these South American concerns is in South America, and that some weeks must elapse before we can trace the shares.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)