(alsovoting stock[U])acompanysharethat givesitsownertherighttovoteatshareholdermeetings:Heholds18% of the company'svotingshares.Thefamilycontrols43% of thevotingstock.Comparenon-voting(Definition ofvoting sharefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvoting share
voting shareIn traditional forms of worker cooperative, all shares are held by the workforce with no outside or consumer owners, and each member has onevotingshare.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is more likely that we shall have one category ofvotingshareonly.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Ownership of more than 50% of voting shares generally gives the right of control and consolidation.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In theory this could mean that controlling interest would be 33.4% or 50% of the voting shares plus one.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A company in which the holding company owns more than 50% voting shares or a majority of share ownership is known as a subsidiary.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A company or firm in which the holding company owns a significant portion of voting shares, usually 2050% or a minority of share ownership, is known as an associate company.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.What is highly probable is that the voting shares are in these ranges, but not whose share is highest; that's another probability question with closer odds.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Once shares are listed, however, companies are not allowed to reduce the voting rights of the existing shares or issue a new class of superior voting shares.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Is it 51 per cent. of the voting shares?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Is it an effective number of the voting shares?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/voting-share##
