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ˈstockˌholder
1. One who is a proprietor of stock in the public funds or the funds of a joint-stock company, etc. Also (now U.S.) used more widely to include the meaning of ‘shareholder’.
1753Scots Mag. Mar. 116/1 The stockholders in the Silesia loan. 1776–83Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies I. 359 The stock-holders will be mistrustful, the shares will be depreciated, and the Company will fall to ruin. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 498 The India stockholders would be left without any available means of realising their dividends. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 72 It draws the nobility into the competition as stock⁓holders in the mine, the canal, the railway. 1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 943/1 Its stockholders pocket comfortable dividends of seven per cent. 1904Athenæum 2 July 8/1 The use of ‘stockholders’ in the sense of shareholders is admissible in a work designed for American readers only. 1912Times 19 Oct. 18/5 The Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Debenture stockholders.
2. A member of the Stationers' Company. ? Obs.
1825Hansard Typogr. 276 The trading concerns [of the Stationers' Company] are managed by a regular committee of nine members; viz., the master, the two wardens, and six other stock-holders, who are annually chosen. Ibid., The livery (stock-holders) are summoned to elect.
3. Austral. An owner of large herds of cattle or flocks of sheep.
1819W. C. Wentworth Descr. N.S. Wales 97 The system which the great stockholders almost invariably pursue. 1824E. Curr Acc. Van Diemen's Land 83 The most negligent stock-holders now carefully house their wool.
So ˈstockholding vbl. n. or ppl. a.; (of or pertaining to) the action or business of a stockholder; also, (of or pertaining to) the practice of holding material in stock.
1830Debates in Congress 10 May 927 The great stockholding interest, whose funds are in various stocks, which, altogether, constitute the national debt. 1961Wall St. Jrnl. 26 Apr. 3 Ralph Gish, manager of the funds' investment departments, said common stock holdings have been increased in these industries. 1962A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control ii. 18 If the cost of the material goes up, the amount of capital invested in stock also increases, and so does the stockholding cost. 1965Mod. Law Rev. XXVIII. v. 555 Loss to other outlets of fast-selling titles..can have a devastating effect on stockholding booksellers. 1971Engineering Apr. 123 (Advt.), This van is just one of many which provide a service from stock-holding depot to the customer... With 29 stock-holding depots strategically placed throughout the British Isles, you are assured personal service. 1981Times 26 Jan. 15/2 A group of smaller stockholding concerns is said to have formed a consortium through which it can buy and distribute cheaper foreign produced steel. 1981J. Sutherland Bestsellers i. 18 The stockholding bookshop would be sacrificed to the bookstand in the supermarket. |