Stakeholder
A stakeholder is a person or group of people who are involved with, or have a share in, an organisation or process.
This involvement may be as a consequence of being affected by, or influencing, what is being done and the decisions that are being made.
For example, the general public are stakeholders of the National Health Service, and shareholders are stakeholders of the companies in which they own shares.
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