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 Barbour, Harold S.
The other six, the ones who seem to admire Miss Walbert, are another close corporation.
From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline
The close corporation might have very good laws, but they were nothing to him.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
Society, still a close corporation, 198; but more and more subject to external influences, 198; recruited from alien elements, 199; ideal standard of, unaltered, 202.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
"Is it a close corporation, so that new partners can not be added?" asked Mr. Stewart, of Nevada.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
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