stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not in OED in this sense.

2010 (Nov. 30)
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Dietary-Reference-Intakes-for-Calcium-and-Vitamin-D/Report-Brief.aspx
The new reference values are based on much more information and
higher-quality studies than were available when the values for these
nutrients were first set in 1997. The committee assessed more than one
thousand studies and reports and listened to testimony from scientists and
stakeholders before making its conclusions.

One might read the word here as being restricted to supplement
manufacturers, but I think that would be hasty. Surely not everyone who
might have testified was either a scientist or a directly-profiting
manufacturer.

I've heard "stakeholder" used several times on TV news (only within the past
year perhaps) to include people with an important emotional or intellectual
"stake" in something.

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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