Shareholding

Quick meaning: Shareholding is an adjective meaning Owning shares.

Meaning

Owning shares.

More Meanings

1. The owning of shares.
2. The amount of capital held as shares.

Example Sentences

Since in these countries shares are traditionally held directly by banks, other firms and the state, the problem of fiduciary shareholding arises less often.

1846 June, “The B.G. and the N.G.: A Few Words on the Gauge Dispute”, in James Anthony Froude et al., Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Number 198 Volume 32, G. W. Nickisson, page 749, Such are the returns of profits on the broad and the narrow gauge lines, which £. s. d. submits to the consideration of the shareholding world—and of the Great Western shareholders in particular.

Word Forms

• shareholdings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shareholder, holding, capital, buyout, ownership, stock.

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