close corporation

[ klohs ]

Origin of close corporation

1
First recorded in 1915–20

Words Nearby close corporation

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How to use close corporation in a sentence

  • A close corporation—stock held at $5,000 per share, but none in the market.

    Life On The Mississippi, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • They are not; they are merely the employees of a close corporation.

    Empire Builders | Francis Lynde
  • The somatoplasm can only in the most general way affect the self-perpetuating, close corporation of the germ-plasm.

  • Society is a sort of close corporation, and we must know its watchwords, and keep an interest in its interests and affairs.

  • How he ever laughed his way into that close corporation is a mystery, but somewhere in his twenties he managed it.

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan

British Dictionary definitions for close corporation

close corporation

/ (kləʊs) /


noun
  1. Southern African a small private limited company: Abbreviation: c.c.

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