close corporation

American  

[klohs] / kloʊs /

noun

1. closed corporation.

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close corporation British  

/ kləʊs /

noun

1. c.c.. a small private limited company

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Etymology

Origin of close corporation

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

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close corporation

The governing charter thenceforth in many boroughs, though not in all, was the charter which had established a close corporation, and from this time on to 1835 the boroughs made no progress in constitutional growth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

In nearly all parts of the South, indeed, it is a close corporation which controls or seeks to control all the federal offices.

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson

In 1709 the Portuguese government made Recife a separate city—a step which was bitterly resented by the Brazilians and especially by the close corporation of native families who controlled the Olinda municipal government.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson

Of course some artists, strictly so called, object to regarding photography as anything but a mechanical process, but the number of those who would make art a close corporation is happily diminishing.

From Pictorial Photography in America 1922 by Pictorial Photographers of America

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

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