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# stakeholder

«stakeholder» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or group who is affected by something, such as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stakeholder, stakeholders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) A stakeholder is a person or group who is affected by something, such as a plan or a business, and so cares how it turns out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#m1)

2) (business, money) Someone who owns a share in a company or has money in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#m2)

3) (old use) A person who holds the money that people have bet, until the winner is known. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school and business talk «stakeholders» are everyone with an interest: pupils, parents and teachers are the stakeholders of a school. It is a stiff, office or exam word. Phrases: «key stakeholders», «consult the stakeholders», «all stakeholders».

### examples

- Parents, pupils and teachers are all stakeholders in the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#x1)
- The council talked to local stakeholders before building the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#x2)
- A shop's stakeholders include its workers, customers and owners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#x3)
- The report was sent to every stakeholder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#x4)
- Farmers are big stakeholders in decisions about water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#x5)
- Our project plan lists the stakeholders and what each one wants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#x6)
- The company must listen to its stakeholders, not only its bosses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/#x7)

### note

Countable, formal and business-like; in plain speech say «people who care about it» or «people affected». Often in the plural. Not the same as a shareholder (who owns shares), though shareholders are one kind of stakeholder.

### In the corpora

- [Stakeholders are everyone affected by a decision, including people and animals who are not in the room.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/36-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad/13/)
- [Reading the case means finding the key facts and listing the stakeholders, everyone the choice affects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stakeholder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stakeholder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.