shareholding

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Other forms: shareholdings

A shareholding is the size of the stake somebody holds. A majority shareholding, increase the shareholding, a small shareholding.

Crossing certain thresholds triggers duties, since a shareholding above three per cent in a listed company must be declared publicly in Britain. A majority shareholding means control rather than merely the largest stake.

Definitions of shareholding

1nounshareholdingThe size of the stake somebody holds.C1
“The founder sold part of her shareholding but kept enough to stay in control of the company.”

shareholding is a stake.

Where it comes from

Share plus holding, from the sense of a share as one of the equal parts a company's capital is divided into.

From share + holding.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Business & Money

Practise this word

shareholding in the wild

The influence of shareholders on a business is determined by the shareholding percentage owned.
Shareholder
The corporation is not required to record the beneficial ownership of a shareholding, only the owner as recorded on the register.
Shareholder
FirstGroup made its first overseas foray in September 1998 via a 26% shareholding in the joint venture New World First Bus that provided bus services in Hong Kong.
FirstGroup
Ansett sold its shareholding to the BT Hotel Group in May 1998, allowing Qantas to begin to serve the airport.
Hamilton Island Airport
NAC also has shareholding in Discovery Jets based in Fort Lauderdale, USA.
National Airways Corporation

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

← Vocabulary