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Golden Share is a share which has voting rights capable of exercising a veto over specified or significant changes to the constitution or articles of association of a company.

The term came into common usage through the 1980s to refer to the government's continuing interest in companies which it had privatised.

The golden share supposedly protects a privatised company from being taken over. But some people say it was designed to protect the management from the real competitive world!

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