East India Company


noun
  1. the company chartered by the English government in 1600 to carry on trade in the East Indies: dissolved in 1874.

  2. any similar company, as one chartered by the Dutch (1602–1798), the French (1664–1769), or the Danes (1729–1801).

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How to use East India Company in a sentence

  • She thought that a friend, who was in the East India Company's service, had been killed in a duel.

  • Altogether they were an enemy such as the East India Company had never yet encountered.

    Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

British Dictionary definitions for East India Company

East India Company

noun
  1. the company chartered in 1600 by the British government to trade in the East Indies: after being driven out by the Dutch, it developed trade with India until the Indian Mutiny (1857), when the Crown took over the administration: the company was dissolved in 1874

  2. any similar trading company, such as any of those founded by the Dutch, French, and Danes in the 17th and 18th centuries

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