[AlexandrB]

It's almost always a weasel word because if you meant customer you would just say customer. Saying "stakeholder" permits a level of ambiguity about whose interests are being represented.

[hollerith]

If I mean "customers, suppliers, neighboring businesses, employees, their families, investors and anyone else affected by my decision", should I write that out or should I just write "stakeholders"?

[fair_enough]

Only if you earnestly give a rat's ass about all of the above.

Again, you're thinking of an "agile" stakeholder- not a "stakeholder capitalism" stakeholder.

Why is this so difficult for you to grasp?

[hollerith]

>Why is this so difficult for you to grasp?

Because I personally haven't come across writings or speakings AFAICR in which "stakeholder" is used as a weasel word.

I will avoid the word now that I've had this conversation.