controlling interest

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   ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares

   Broaderinterest

Questions about controlling interest

What does controlling interest mean?

controlling interest means "ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares".

Is controlling interest a common word?

controlling interest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.