Word Meanings - STAKEHOLDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.

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• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• WAGERING
  Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. See Wager policy, under Policy.
• DEPOSITARY
  One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. (more info) 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians,
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• DEPOSITION
  The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• WAGERER
  One who wagers, or lays a bet.
• STAKEHOLDER
  The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
• WAGER
  A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. Bouvier. Note: At common law a wager is considered as
• DEPOSITUM
  Deposit.
• DEPOSITURE
  The act of depositing; deposition. Sir T. Browne.
• STAKEHEAD
  A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
• STAKE
  OFries. & LG. stake, D. staak, Sw. stake, Dan. stage. See Stick, v. 1. A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
• DEPOSITORY
  1. A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records. 2. One with whom something is deposited; a depositary. I am the sole depository of my own secret,
• STAKE-DRIVER
  The common American bittern ; -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.
• DEPOSIT
  1. To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor. 2. To lay up or away for safekeeping;
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• BOOKHOLDER
  1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
• BONDHOLDER
  A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• DOWAGERISM
  The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• INNHOLDER
  One who keeps an inn.
• PAINSTAKER
  One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.