Mehrheitseigner
German, noun/ˈmeːɐ̯haɪ̯t͡saɪ̯ɡnɐ/
Mehrheitseigner is a German masculine noun meaning “majority owner, majority shareholder (a person or entity holding more than 50% of the shares or voting rights in a company, thus exercising…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die mehr als die Hälfte eines Unternehmens besitzt”.
What does Mehrheitseigner mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemajority owner, majority shareholder (a person or entity holding more than 50% of the shares or voting rights in a company, thus exercising control)
Der Mehrheitseigner entschied sich gegen eine weitere Kapitalerhöhung.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die mehr als die Hälfte eines Unternehmens besitzt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Mehrheitseigner
- Mehrheitseigners genitive
- Mehrheitseignern dative definite plural
- Mehrheitseignerin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Mehrheitseigner?
- /ˈmeːɐ̯haɪ̯t͡saɪ̯ɡnɐ/
- [ˈmeːɐ̯haɪ̯t͡sˌʔaɪ̯ɡnɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Mehrheitseigner in German?
Mehrheitseigner appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).