stockholder

C2+ Topic:Business & Commerce

US /ˈstɑkˌhoʊldɚ/ UK /ˈstɒkˌhəʊldə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
an owner of shares in a company; a shareholder

Every stockholder received a dividend at year's end.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · an owner of shares in a... shareholder investorstakeholdershareowner

Word family

Related forms stock holder shareholder

Etymology

A compound of 'stock' (Old English 'stocc', a tree-trunk, later capital fund) and 'holder' (one who holds), denoting an owner of company shares.

stocc Old English

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Topics

Business & Commerce Word Formation & Derivatives

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# stockholder

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈstɑkˌhoʊldɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈstɒkˌhəʊldə/

## Meanings
1. an owner of shares in a company; a shareholder

## Examples
- Every stockholder received a dividend at year's end.

## Synonyms
- shareholder
- investor
- stakeholder
- shareowner

## Related Forms
- stock
- holder
- shareholder

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: stocc

## Etymology
A compound of 'stock' (Old English 'stocc', a tree-trunk, later capital fund) and 'holder' (one who holds), denoting an owner of company shares.

## AI Etymology
Stockholder is a compound of 'stock' (Old English 'stocc', a tree-trunk, later capital fund) and 'holder' (one who holds), denoting an owner of company shares. Important recorded forms include stocc (Old English). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The semantic development is already visible in the history: an older concrete or specialized use was extended into the modern meaning rather than replaced by a separate origin. In current use it covers an owner of shares in a company; a shareholder. The wider family includes related words such as stock, holder, and shareholder.

## Topics
- Business & Commerce
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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