FINANCE,STOCK MARKETa majority-ownedcompanyiscontrolledby ashareholderwhoownsmoresharesin it than any othershareholder, and enough to be incontrolof it:TheFrenchenergycompanyis still majority-owned by theState.amajority-ownedsubsidiary/bank/company
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minority-owned(Definition ofmajority-ownedfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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majority-ownedBanksmajority-ownedor controlled by foreign institutions rose from 4% of assets in 1994 to 22.1% in 1999, to over half in 2000.From theCambridge English CorpusThe subsidiaries of a limited liability company, wholly ormajority-owned, pass dividends between the subsidiary companies to the owning company without being taxed on those dividends.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Today nearly half of the utilities are public enterprises andmajority-ownedby the central government.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With the award of the license the bank secured preferential treatment for financing of companies that aremajority-ownedby the government.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Requirement is amajority-ownedby at least 95%.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition to the parent, the group structure includes wholly owned andmajority-ownedsubsidiaries and associates.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These 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/majority-owned##
