stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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As the use of "stakeholder" has grown, I've assumed it was so that the
speaker could justify giving credence to the opinions/desires of third
parties who really shouldn't be listened to.

If you have a stockholder's meeting, you can limit input to those who
own stock.  Once you include stakeholders, then you gotta listen to the
Sierra Club, ACLU, labor unions, organic lettuce farmers, etc.

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> Not in OED in this sense.
>
> 2010 (Nov. 30)
>
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Dietary-Reference-Intakes-for-Calcium-an
d-
> 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
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
truth."
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