controlling interest


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

Origin of controlling interest

1
First recorded in 1920–25

Words Nearby controlling interest

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use controlling interest in a sentence

  • I don't doubt that Ed offered you a generous price to get a controlling interest.

    A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
  • Although he is rich already, for he holds a controlling interest in a stock-broker's firm, he works as hard as any poor devil.

    Other People's Money | Emile Gaboriau
  • The object of the game is to secure The best rooms; Tables with a view; The controlling interest in all projects of entertainment.

  • And what I really came to tell you to-day is that I've bought the controlling interest in the springs.

    The Rest Hollow Mystery | Rebecca N. Porter
  • Placing them on the market involves forming stock companies in each of which we must have the controlling interest.

    Nat Goodwin's Book | Nat C. Goodwin

British Dictionary definitions for controlling interest

controlling interest

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012