0 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 is controlled -- 股票持有人,股東
The company's shareholders have voted to remove the executive board.
The company secretary has written to all the shareholders to apologize for the mistake.
Existing shareholders subscribed to only 49% of the new share issue.
The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company away from the current directors.
Even under limited liability, therefore, shareholders of corporations that take greater risks will be "penalized" with higher interest rates on corporate borrowing.
It clearly is not exactly the same as a business - we do not have shareholders that want financial return!
It was the distribution of the ' surplus ' to non-producing shareholders which aroused trade union anger, rather than the creation of profits themselves.