shareholders' meeting

shareholders' meeting
share·hold·ers' meeting /'shar-ˌhōl-dərz-/ n: annual meeting

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

shareholders' meeting
A meeting of all or most shareholders of a corporation to hear reports on the company's business situation. Shareholders usually elect members of the board of directors at an annual shareholders' meeting, often by proxies.
Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations → LLCs, Corporations, Partnerships, etc.

Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.

shareholders' meeting
n.
   a meeting, usually annual, of all shareholders of a corporation (although in large corporations only a small percentage attend) to elect the board of directors and hear reports on the company's business situation. In larger corporations top management people hold the proxies signed over to them by many of the shareholders to vote for them.

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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