Hypernym for "clients", "members" and "partners"

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We're building a feature for a website and trying to think of a hypernym for clients, partners and members so that the feature remains generic enough for re-use later on other websites.

Sayan · Accepted Answer

Stakeholders would be the term.

Stakeholders : A person, group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Some examples of key stakeholders are creditors, directors, employees, government (and its agencies), owners (shareholders), suppliers, unions, and the community from which the business draws its resources.

Brian Hooper · Answer

You might try stakeholders:-

(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) a person or group owning a significant percentage of a company's shares
  (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a person or group not owning shares in an enterprise but affected by or having an interest in its operations, such as the employees, customers, local community, etc.

julianlab · Answer

I was thinking about the word "organisations" but I'm not sure if it's generic enough.

Canis Lupus · Answer

Less sophisticated than "stakeholders" is associates.

Associate: person joined with another or others in an enterprise, business, etc.; partner; colleague.

PCARR · Answer

Would generically referring to them as collaborators suffice?

Daniel Santos · Answer

If you want to further abstract the function of the party, then entity is appropriate. To be less abstract, Sayan's stakeholder will do, but this specifies that they have a real investment or "stake" in the project (material or otherwise). Less specific than that is an associate.

Answered by Daniel Santos on July 8, 2021

Hypernym for "clients", "members" and "partners"

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