principal shareholder
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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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shareholder
noun[C]
uk/ˈʃeəˌhəʊl.dər/us/ˈʃerˌhoʊl.dɚ/
a person who owns shares in a company and therefore gets part of the company's profits and the right to vote on how the company ...
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(Definition ofprincipalandshareholderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He is, therefore, captain, mate, bottle washer and cook on this ship, and he is also theprincipalshareholder.
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Theprincipalshareholderin the managing companies is one corporation.
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For instance, what is the position of a one-man limited company whose premises are owned by theprincipalshareholder?
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I do not want theprincipalshareholderto get off the payment of the duty, but why should the liability be placed upon the company?
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However, that is no excuse for putting him in the dominant, influential position of aprincipalshareholder.
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They are aprincipalshareholderin at least one company and there would be a fair amount of weight given to what they had to say in getting this reversion.
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The improved standing of theprincipalshareholder, the injection of further resources and management changes were carried out deliberately to try to safeguard the interests of depositors.
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He remained theprincipalshareholderand manager of these banks until their collapse in the 1900s.
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It is very much as it should be—there are ongoing discussions between the management of the future airport company and its principal shareholders.
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As host nation and one of the principal shareholders, we undertake to play our full part.
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The two principal shareholders exercised very restricted joint jurisdictional powers through a judicial "kamdar".
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The emerging companies were formed by the individuals and families who sank the original collieries; but by the start of the 20th century, they were no more than principal shareholders.
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