Stakeholder

[Sarah]

The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are depositedwhen a wager is laid.

[Julene]

Term used by an [unelected] government authority to describe Wall Street investment banks, and community members that are invested in the outcome of a public works project by the mere virtue of their privileged sociological status.
NOTE: The term [stakeholders] is NEVER [inclusive] of the poor people most-impacted by the decisions of the specific unelected authority, and are most always subject to bear the heaviest burden of said decisions in the form of tolls, taxes, if not death.

[Renato]

a person or group of people who own a share in a business

[Monty]

(in gambling) an independent party with whom each of those who make a wager deposits the money or counters wagered.

[Oralee]

An escrow agent or custodian.