East India Company
the company chartered by the English government in 1600 to carry on trade in the East Indies: dissolved in 1874.
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
In the early 1600s, the British East India Company arrived and you already know what the next several hundred violent years looked like.
Theodore Forbes arrived in India in 1809 at the age of 21, working as a merchant for the East India Company.
This situation resulted in the East India Company selling its tea cheaper than the other companies.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyUnder this system monopolies were common, and among them few were more important than that of the East India Company.
Before his retirement a difference arose in the cabinet on the affairs of the East India Company.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt
She thought that a friend, who was in the East India Company's service, had been killed in a duel.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantAltogether 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
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
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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