The most straightforward job of the shareholder is to provide funds. In practice, however, it isnât straightforward at all. Corporations do need capital to invest in growth, but they donât get it in aggregate from shareholders.
Noun. 1. understatement-a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said. statement-a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; according to his statement he was in London on that day.
Answer Wiki. 2 Answers. , I taught literature for years, and have been reading it since I was a kid. An internal speaker (the person inside the poem, speaking its words in a dramatic situation the text creates) can make great use of understatement -- by which I mean something different from Skeeter above (or below, or somewhere on here).