controlling interest
ownership of enough stock in a company to exert control over policy and management.
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How to use controlling interest in a sentence
SAP plans to maintain a controlling interest in the company.
He bought a controlling interest in the institution and became a director.
First Rule of the Fake Dead Bankers Club: Stay Gone | Daniel Gross | January 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are worried, too, that Branson might sell his controlling interest, although that seems unlikely.
Delta Airlines Seeks to Buy Stake in Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic | Clive Irving | December 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe circled LWT like a predator and finally was able to buy a controlling interest.
Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB Bid Is His Latest Move for Control | Clive Irving | January 30, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTBy risking only $315 million of his own money he would still get controlling interest of a company valued at $8.2 billion.
I don't doubt that Ed offered you a generous price to get a controlling interest.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonAlthough he is rich already, for he holds a controlling interest in a stock-broker's firm, he works as hard as any poor devil.
Other People's Money | Emile GaboriauThe object of the game is to secure The best rooms; Tables with a view; The controlling interest in all projects of entertainment.
And what I really came to tell you to-day is that I've bought the controlling interest in the springs.
The Rest Hollow Mystery | Rebecca N. PorterPlacing them on the market involves forming stock companies in each of which we must have the controlling interest.
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British Dictionary definitions for controlling interest
a quantity of shares in a business that is sufficient to ensure control over its direction
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