stakeholdingn.
/ˈsteɪkˌhəʊldɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsteɪkˌ(h)oʊldɪŋ/ 1. The fact of holding deposited money on behalf of the other parties making a wager or entering into a business transaction. Cf. stakeholder n. 1. Now rare.
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1852 Times 29 Apr. 3/6 At a meeting of the Jockey Club..resolutions were passed, which will have the effect of very considerably reducing the fees for stakeholding.
1901 News (Frederick, Maryland) 4 Sept. The partners..decided that as theirs was an investment business, and stakeholding not in their line, they must decline to hold the stakes.
1920 Times 19 Feb. 22/2 In modern times, no injustice is found to be done to purchasers by abolition of the old practice of stakeholding.
2. As a count noun: an investment held in something, a shareholding; the value of this, expressed as a proportion of the total value of a company, etc.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > share > held
shareholding1817
stakeholding1948
1948 Times 18 Nov. 4/7 Of the £9,333 he had been paid by the Davis brothers he had to retain £8,000 as a stakeholding.
1988 Financial Post (Canada) 2 Sept. iii. 44 Before the preliminary prospectus was filed, two of Cantel's shareholders..tried to sell their stakeholdings at $60 a share.
1991 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 5 Mar. 23 Scottish Amicable had marginally increased its stakeholding to about 6.2 p.c.
1992 J. Hamilton-Paterson Seven-tenths ii. i. 53 The developers had to have a majority Filipino stakeholding.
2004 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 29 Jan. 27 The bank revealed yesterday it would book an after-tax profit of $322 million from the sale of its key stakeholdings in AMP, British spin-off HHG Plc and banking powerhouse St George.
3. The holding of a concern or interest in something; (Politics) the possession of a stake in the success or progress of an organization, economy, etc., by all who contribute to it. Also: a stake thus held. Cf. stakeholder n. 2.
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1989 Hist. Educ. Q. 29 171 Spock was explicit in his attempt to create a family group in which participation and stake-holding led to mature self-discipline.
1992 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 17 Mar. 1 Talking won't help much as long as groups feel that they don't have anything in the community. ‘Until you get stakeholding and ownership, you don't have community.’
1994 Guardian 5 Sept. i. 14/5 Nor is it possible to construct the ‘stakeholder’ company—in which workers, customers, shareholders, bankers and sub-contractors are all deemed to have a legitimate interest—if the political system is incapable of organising such stakeholding in the wider polity.
1996 Tribune 21 June 6/4 If new Labour is about stakeholding, then giving a stake in society to those living in poverty must be a priority for an incoming Labour government.
2001 Philos. Sci. 68 563 Money, education, and issues of security create stakeholdings in the wider society.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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