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Culture vs Stakeholder - What's the difference?

culture | stakeholder |

As nouns the difference between culture and stakeholder

is that culture is the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation while stakeholder is a person holding the stakes of bettors, with the responsibility of delivering the pot to the winner of the bet.

As a verb culture

is to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria.

culture

English

(Culture) (Culture) (Culture) (Culture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Farming as rocket science , passage=Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.}}
  • The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture , ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.}}
  • (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  • (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
  • The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
  • (botany) Cultivation.
  • * http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
    • The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
  • (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
    • A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.

    Derived terms

    * alliumculture * anticulture * coleculture * cucurbitculture * culture hero * cyberculture * legumeculture * macroculture * microculture * monoculture * multiculture * olericulture * overculture * solanaculture * subculture * permaculture * uberculture * underculture

    Related terms

    * agriculture

    Verb

    (cultur)
  • To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
  • To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).

    • Related terms

    * cult * cultivate * culture shock * cultural * cultural criticism * culturally * cultured * horticulture

    See also

    * colonus * colonia * column * cycle * wheel English collective nouns ----

    stakeholder

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia stakeholder) (en noun)
  • A person holding the stakes of bettors, with the responsibility of delivering the pot to the winner of the bet.
  • An escrow agent or custodian.
  • (legal) A person filing an interpleader action, such as a garnishee or trustee, who acknowledges possession of property that is owed to one or more of several other claimants.
  • A person or organisation with a legitimate interest in a given situation, action or enterprise.

    • Usage notes

    The last definition essentially contradicts the historic definitions and hence the word has become a contronym. The last definition refers to one who has'' an interest in an issue, whereas the initial definitions refer to one who does ''not have an interest in the property held. The last definition has gained significant use since the 1990s, especially when discussing corporate governance.