controlling

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A controlling stake, interest, etc. in a company is a share of the company that someone owns that is large enough to give them control of it:

controlling stake The company has effectively been nationalized, with the government holding a controlling stake.

controlling shareholder The company's CEO and controlling shareholder recently announced plans to retire.

controlling interest In 2017, it bought a controlling interest in the struggling newspaper.

a controlling share/shareholding

a controlling stockholder/stakeholder

trying to control other people's behaviour or situations in a way that is unreasonable:

I began to feel more confident and to go out more but my husband, who was very controlling, couldn't deal with it.

Some people in the group had controlling parents who had put them on diets early in life.

I believe the committee is too controlling about money.

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