equityholder

noun

equityholder

noun

Etymology From equity + holder.

1

Business, Finance One who owns equity in a corporation or other business.

While the economic and the legal status of equityholders has been much studied in the past, that status of debtholders has been poorly understood in the literature.1992 June 23, Hideki Kanda, “Debtholders and Equityholders”, in The Journal of Legal Studies:

Coordinate terms: shareholder, stockholder, unitholder, debtholder

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