Provide me with the definition of a Stakeholder and list all the stakeholders in a business.

A stakeholder is a party that has an interest in a company and can either affect or be affected by the business.
The primary stakeholders in a typical corporation are its investors, employees, customers and suppliers. However, the modern theory of the idea goes beyond this original notion to include additional stakeholders such as a community, government or trade association.

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