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

[Tom Zurinskas]

It's hard for me to invision those negatively affected by something as a stackholder.  More like a mistakeholder.


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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.
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> 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.
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> > 2010 (Nov. 30)
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > JL
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> truth."
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