close corporation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of close corporation
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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If they can find suitable material to mine and without too much expense for apparatus, they will start in at once with a close corporation.
From Polly and Eleanor by Harold S. Barbour
This privilege ultimately became merely a theoretical right at Bologna, where the teachers tended to become a close corporation of professors, like the Senatus of a Scottish University.
From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait
It has, in the intellectual sphere, crushed the old authority which embodied superstition, antiquated prejudice, and a sham system of professional knowledge, which was upheld by a close corporation.
From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Sir Leslie Stephen
A Royal Charter, making the proposed university a close corporation under the control of Anglican clergymen, was obtained.
From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold Putnam
Nancy and I chum together, and it’s a close corporation.
From A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall by Amy Bell Marlowe
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