Word: stockholders
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: stock
hol
ders
Definition: Plural of stockholder; someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation
Morphemes:
Affix: stock
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
Affix: hold
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: An act or instance of holding.
Affix: -er
Language: en
Meaning: agent noun
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ārius
Language: la
Decoded: -arius
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: -er; Used to form nouns denoting an agent of use, such as a dealer or artisan, from other nouns.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.