controlling interest

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noun

ownership of enough stock in a company to exert control over policy and management.

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Origin of controlling interest

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby controlling interest

controlled explosion, controlled-release, controlled substance, controller, controlling image, controlling interest, control panel, control point, control rocket, control rod, control room

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How to use controlling interest in a sentence

SAP plans to maintain a controlling interest in the company.
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But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.
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But if you have a hearing and you prove that someone is mature enough, well then that state interest evaporates.
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While public interest in Ebola continues to dwindle, the epidemic itself continues to soar.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Lennon casually told some DC friends about it and found there was local interest in establishing Dinner Parties.
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At the same time, campaigns are spending less while the special-interest groups are spending more.
The 100 Rich People Who Run America|Mark McKinnon|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
In the parish churches, many of which are of great interest, the predominant styles are Decorated and Perpendicular.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 4|Various
And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor

British Dictionary definitions for controlling interest

controlling interest

noun

a quantity of shares in a business that is sufficient to ensure control over its direction

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