stockholders

The persons or corporations holding stock in a corporation.

QUIZZES

It’d be a real faux pas to miss this quiz on the words from August 3–9, 2020!

Question 1 of 7

What does “vacillate” mean?

Stockholders get less than they paid for their shares, and may wind up with nothing.
Cyprus’s Emotionally Satisfying, But Likely Ineffective ‘Bail-in’|Daniel Gross|March 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Now GM, its stockholders, dealers, workers, indeed, the entire nation, are paying the price of this timidity.
Was Firing Rick Wagoner Just for Show?|Paul A. Eisenstein|April 4, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Margin calls greased the slide as stockholders were unable to deliver.
What the Richest Men in the World Don't Know|Barbara Goldsmith|January 23, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The private property of stockholders shall be exempt from any and all debts of this Corporation.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment|Charles E. Bolton

The object—and duty—of the officers of pharmaceutical houses is primarily to pay dividends to their stockholders.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2|Various
But apparently this trod upon the toes of too many ambitious Virginians, for the word "stockholders" was stricken out.
The Life of John Marshall (Volume 2 of 4)|Albert J. Beveridge
The director general at the expense of the stockholders built himself a house costing $100,000.
The Panama Canal|Frederic Jennings Haskin
And now you have got to face a body of stockholders from whom you have lured thousands of dollars by your misrepresentations.
Carmen Ariza|Charles Francis Stocking