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English
Etymology
From share + holding.
Adjective
shareholding (not comparable)
- Owning shares.
- 1846 June, “The B.G. and the N.G.: A Few Words on the Gauge Dispute”, in James Anthony Froude et al., Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Number 198 Volume 32, G. W. Nickisson, page 749,
- Such are the returns of profits on the broad and the narrow gauge lines, which £. s. d. submits to the consideration of the shareholding world—and of the Great Western shareholders in particular.
Noun
shareholding (countable and uncountable, plural shareholdings)
- The owning of shares.
2008, Mathias M. Siems, Convergence in Shareholder Law, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 144:Since in these countries shares are traditionally held directly by banks, other firms and the state, the problem of fiduciary shareholding arises less often.
- The amount of capital held as shares.
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