Stakeholders are people who have an interest in a company's or organization's affairs.
[business]
stakeholder in British English
(ˈsteɪkˌhəʊldə)
noun
1.
a person or group owning a significant percentage of a company's shares
2.
a person or group not owning shares in an enterprise but affected by or having an interest in its operations, such as the employees, customers, local community, etc
adjective
3.
of or relating to policies intended to allow people to participate in and benefit from decisions made by enterprises in which they have a stake
a stakeholder economy
stakeholder in American English
(ˈsteɪkˌhoʊldər)
noun
1.
one who holds money bet by others and pays it to the winner
2.
a person or group having a stake, or interest, in the success of an enterprise, business, movement, etc.
Examples of 'stakeholder' in a sentence
stakeholder
And I'm a major stakeholder, but Mum 192 and Angelica also bought shares.
Anita Anderson SUMMER OF SECRETS (2003)
In other languages
stakeholder
British English: stakeholder NOUN
Stakeholders are people who have an interest in a company's or organization's affairs.
...the organisation is a major stakeholder in the national historic site.
American English: stakeholder
Brazilian Portuguese: acionista
Chinese: 股东
European Spanish: interesado
French: partie prenante
German: Teilhaber
Italian: chi possiede una partecipazione azionaria