activist investor

noun

a person or a group purchasing and using an equity stake in a publicly traded corporation to put public pressure on its management, with the goal of effecting a change

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Meanings

nounactivist investor (plural activist investors)

plural activist investors

  1. a person or a group purchasing and using an equity stake in a publicly traded corporation to put public pressure on its management, with the goal of effecting a change
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